An IT consultant- What not to do

All the companies strive to cut costs, centralized the staff, and try to disembowel the executive salaries. Many of the senior IT consultants in Sydney professionals are having an eye on corporate exits and try to show them against their will. There are many such IT Executives which are extremely rugged at their workplace which is the result of an independent consulting started in the 21st century.

But some of us do not have what it takes, or even we don’t know what it takes, which makes us strike out on your own? How can you find clients in order to increase your sales? Is this important to be specialized in it? What is the take of marketing and finance? How can you get decent to make things affordable for health insurance that makes you cut loose from small business IT support benefits?

What will make you to navigate the many cultural changes of minding your own calendar, making yourself to develop and build your very own marketing presentations, and make you schedule your own economy class air travels. How will you be able to make your mark and find some fast paying clients, when it seems like every other laid-off IT executive is setting out his own aliment.

There is a vivid answer to these questions which address all these questions given by the computer world, which has rounded up the boardroom’s worth of former CIOs and other high level IT professional which has successfully made the transition to an IT consultant in Sydney..

Lets have a look on their hard-won answers and some of the practical advices.

The first and the most important thing is to find your niche in the market. No matter whatever is the depth and breadth of experience you are having,  by simply swap your title and business card to “IT consultants”, doesn’t last you to land a single client for you. Specialization had always been important and critical, this is stated by some successful CIOs turned consultants.

There is a former CIO at Universal Underwriters Insurance Group, and now she is a partner with her husband in their own consulting firm. This firm makes them finding a niche is reviewing large, which have been troubled ERP projects in the higher - education sector.

It is really much more important to specialize and make yourself to take a lead with those two or three things that you are best at. If you make yourself specialize in everything, people might not know who you are and what you do ?  Moreover, is this important for consultants to frame their services which are best suited for real-world needs?

In order to get to know your core value proposition, you need to make a list of the things you do really well, the other list of the things you love to do and the final list of what is needed in the market. If you are not passionate about the things which are needed in the market then you are not going to make a penny out of it. Stick to your specialty always, it's really tempting to take on whatever work comes on your way but it’s a real mistake to do so, it will eventually risk of doing your long-term damage to your credibility.

The corporate job is to improve all the aspects of the company. The consultancy is highly focused on the engagement of the particular solutions for the particular problems in an organization.

Source:  http://itsupportfirm.livejournal.com/669.html