An honest comparison
Workflow deployment firm or global consultancy?
For a 200-person operating company with a broken workflow, a workflow deployment firm is usually the better fit: it builds a working tool, prices it fixed, and ties part of its fee to use. A global consultancy is the better choice when the problem is company-wide strategy, a merger, or a transformation across many sites at once.
Choose a global consultancy when
- The problem spans the whole company, not a specific part of the work.
- You need a strategy, a market view or a restructuring plan.
- The change has to be coordinated across many sites or business units at once.
- The board needs an outside, recognized name on the recommendation.
Choose a workflow deployment firm when
- You can already name the workflow that is broken.
- You want a working tool, not a report.
- You want a fixed price and part of the fee tied to whether the crew uses it.
- The people who will use the tool work in the field, the shop or on the phone, not at a desk.
The honest trade-off
A consultancy brings breadth: many specialists, many industries, many sites. A workflow deployment firm brings depth on the work that is breaking and accountability for its use. For a 200-person company whose problem is one handoff, breadth is expensive and depth is what fixes it.
Questions people ask
When is a global consultancy the right choice?
When the question is strategic and company-wide: entering a market, restructuring, integrating an acquisition, or coordinating change across many sites and business units at once.
When is a workflow deployment firm the right choice?
When you already know which workflow is broken and need it fixed, used and measured, not studied.
What do you get at the end of each?
A consultancy engagement typically ends in analysis and a recommendation. A workflow deployment engagement ends in a working tool your crew uses, with the usage measured.
Can we use both?
Yes. A strategy engagement can identify which workflows matter most; a workflow firm can then fix them one at a time.
How do prices compare?
We only publish our own. Our Workflow Spec is 15,000 dollars fixed and a Production Build starts at 60,000 dollars, fixed after the Spec.