“Within a short time Cardea managed to perform a global search and evaluation of potential service providers. With the detailed documentation and presentation, Cardea was able to demonstrate specific strengths and weaknesses of each of the providers based on the defined requirements.”

Credit Suisse, Business Unit Head

Advice on Consulting Engagements to Clients

Through our Meta-Consulting process we promote a professional approach to managing external consulting. Meta-Consulting encompasses processes and instruments to better plan, steer and control the deployment of external consulting services.

Our Clients' Benefit

Meta-Consulting ensures that companies make the right decisions when deploying external consulting services. The Meta-Consulting process closes the gap between business requirements and practice with regard to maximizing the return on consulting.

We have proven that Meta-Consulting has a positive effect in terms of reducing consulting spend and improving the quality of consulting work. The savings potential on consulting spend is 15% to 30%. Moreover, we have proven that the use of Meta-Consulting instruments has a tangible positive impact on the outcome of consulting projects and on the quality of all processes along the consulting value chain.

Vision

The various services and instruments related to Meta-Consulting have one goal: To enhance transparency on the offerings and performance of different (small or large) providers of consulting services, and to generate and share knowledge about the factors that influence and determine the value-added of consulting projects.

“Good Counsels are Born of the Wisdom of the Prince, and not the Wisdom of the Prince from Good Counsels.” *

A prince must have the wisdom to recognize good advice from bad. Meta-Consulting aims at enhancing the „wisdom of princes“. It helps clients who seek advice from external consultants to achieve clarity on project goals and the external resources and skills required before a mandate is assigned to an external consultant. This clarity will help clients to rely on the right counselors and get good counsel.

* Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527), Italian politician and philosopher