Don’t pay consultants – do it yourself, says UK expert

THE way to improve public services is for chief executives and their managers to examine their own departments and not to buy in consultative firms, a Corporate Services Scrutiny Panel has been told.

John Seddon of Vanguard Services, who is known for his work improving operations in the UK public sector and in private companies, told the panel this week that he did not believe in the buying in of consultative firms for this purpose.
Improvement

‘Chief executives and a cross section of managers should look at each individual area of their services because there could be huge scope for improvement. Productive change comes from studying your own system,’ he said (from JEP)

Never a more truer word spoken why have top exec's and managers who are supposed to be the experts in their jobs if they have to keep getting outsiders telling them how to run their departments...

oh so very true ..it would be interesting to find out how much money is wasted in guernsey by bringing in consultants for every prob that needs to be solved.