It's important to understand the advantages and drawbacks of using consulting firms to advise and assist your business.
First, the drawbacks: Some would say that consulting companies tend to run up their hours, and milk their customers for every last penny - that they cloak their deliverables in buzz-speak and gobbledygook, and live in terror of their clients discovering that they're not really that smart.
As for advantages, well, some others might say that consultants can be of some help, sometime.
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Not a very fair or rigorous analysis, was it? You can imagine how I felt after reading Eric Kimberling's "Debunking myths about open source ERP software."
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