John Weathington of TechRepublic blog shares that when he started his business consulting he had nothing much, and so he had quite a problem.
So for those who plan to go into business consulting, he recommends to view the business as a process and look quality methodologies such as Six Sigma and its tools: DMAIC to DMADV. Using this tool, here are his suggested five phases of building a consulting process.
- Define – First, determine what you want your business to produce, or its output.
- Measure – You need to consider who will benefit from your service (i.e., your clients), and what their definition is of a quality service.
- Analyze – In this brainstorming phase, you start putting down ideas for how to systematically run your business to accomplish your goals and provide a quality service for your clients.
- Design – This is where you start organizing everything into the set of processes that will run your business.
- Verify – This phase starts with prototyping. Try out your process on a small scale in the real world and see what happens.
