A trusted and neutral advisor in Eris Enterprise
Trust is earned, not given, and sometimes, the best way to ensure you are getting the best from your systems integrators and vendors is to bring in a third party to advise on a project. These advisors are able to help sort through the PowerPoint and advertising slicks to get to get what you need for your project.
Advisory vs consulting
Customers often ask what the difference is between the two services. In our view, a consulting engagement is responsible for the design and often the implementation of a solution. They bring are the army of technicians who bring your vision to fruition.
Advisory services, in contrast, have a broad scope to provide you counsel on what consultants are proposing. For instance, if you are preparing to engage in a large system implementation of SAP to replace existing systems and have hired one or more system integrators, the advisory services engagement would be your sounding board to ensure they are implementing what you asked for.
A good advisory services engagement takes a system thinking view of the ecosystem to assess impact across the organization. They have access to work with everyone and provide unbiased feedback to decision-makers. In short, they should not filter what you, the client hear, even when the news is not what you want. You need to trust them to bear good news and bad.
