Our Partnership: We Deliver Opportunities You Want, Services You Need
With more than 5,000 engagements successfully completed for over 500 clients, M Squared has developed a system of principles, practices, and procedures for working with consultants that has stood the test of time. It all starts with us listening to you. We invest time upfront getting to know your expertise, experience, and preferences so that we can match you to challenging and rewarding engagements that are a perfect fit for your practice. And our involvement doesn't stop there. We stay with you every step of the way to ensure a successful result.
Step 1: Identify the Need
M Squared works closely with the client to determine exactly what the organization is trying to accomplish, to establish success metrics, and to evaluate the best way to get there.
Step 2: Define the Engagement
M Squared creates a document that outlines a proposed approach to the engagement, the expected timing, the consulting expertise required, the estimated budget, and the quantifiable value to the client's business. At this stage, the M Squared representative may seek input from a topic expert like you.
Step 3: Conduct the Consultant Selection
Based on the engagement definition, M Squared's Consultant Service Manager begins the search for qualified talent using the firm's proprietary consultant community.
Step 4: Identify Engagement Candidates
M Squared identifies qualified consultants, and then contacts you to determine your availability and interest in the engagement. At this stage, M Squared discusses and agrees to rates and other terms with you, and then meets with you to review key points of the engagement and discuss your relevant experience and competencies. M Squared also checks your professional references who can speak to your fit for the specific engagement.
Step 5: Present Engagement Candidates to the Client
The client receives M Squared's proposal, along with a summary of your relevant competencies, and meets with you to confirm your suitability for the engagement.
Step 6: Select the Consultant or Consulting Team
After interviewing the consultants presented by M Squared , the client makes the final selection.
Step 7: Perform Final Due Diligence
M Squared completes your final background check and confirms the project deliverables, start date, expected duration, pay rate, and other details.
Step 8: Execute and Manage the Engagement
Throughout the engagement, M Squared works with you to establish milestones and checkpoints for the client. M Squared also helps resolve any employment- or project-related issues that might arise, including redefining the project scope and negotiating project extensions.
Step 9: Submit Deliverables and Transfer Knowledge
As your engagement comes to a close, M Squared works with you to provide agreed-upon deliverables and make any additional findings and recommendations to the client. M Squared also helps you transfer knowledge to the client's in-house team to institutionalize the value created by the project.
