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What is an Advisor On Call?
An Advisor On Call is someone you can call on anytime for help with your business problem. First Call On Call Advisors are
all seasoned, business executives that have also served in advisory capacities, so they not only have real world experience
to draw upon, but they can communicate it to you quickly and succinctly.
On call business advisory arrangements can be made for one person in your organization or for multiple individuals. Once
you have established a relationship with one of our On Call Advisors, he or she will be available to help you with your
business problems, be they major ones (such as undertaking a new strategy) or more specific ones (such as dealing with a
particular issue). Over time, you can choose to share more information with your On Call Advisor, such as including them
on select distribution lists, or providing copies of some documents. The more information your advisor has, the better they
can assist you. However, the level of information you provide is totally up to you, and of course all data is kept in strict
confidence.
Why would you want an Advisor On Call?
Fees
Fees for an Advisor On Call are negotiable depending on the extent and duration of contact expected and the number of
people in your organization that will be clients. The typical approach is to begin with a relatively short (3 month) trial
arrangement, and then adjust accordingly depending on usage. Fee arrangements can be based on retainer, or on a
totally variable basis -- you pay only for what you use. On call advisory services can be combined with other support to
reduce your overall fees. For example, if we are engaged to help you in an acquisition or a post merger management effort,
our advisor will be available to you on call for other issues as well.
all seasoned, business executives that have also served in advisory capacities, so they not only have real world experience
to draw upon, but they can communicate it to you quickly and succinctly.
On call business advisory arrangements can be made for one person in your organization or for multiple individuals. Once
you have established a relationship with one of our On Call Advisors, he or she will be available to help you with your
business problems, be they major ones (such as undertaking a new strategy) or more specific ones (such as dealing with a
particular issue). Over time, you can choose to share more information with your On Call Advisor, such as including them
on select distribution lists, or providing copies of some documents. The more information your advisor has, the better they
can assist you. However, the level of information you provide is totally up to you, and of course all data is kept in strict
confidence.
Why would you want an Advisor On Call?
- You want access to senior, experienced advice, but do not have the time, or want to spend the money, to hire a
large, expensive consulting firm just to get access to their senior partners.
- You have good people in your organization, but you want to be able to bounce ideas off someone independent --
someone who will not 'read into' where you might be going.
- You want to gain access to the best practices of other industries.
- You have elevated one of your high potentials to a new position, and feel that he or she would benefit from a mentor,
but you cannot perform the role yourself, either because you do not have the time to do the role justice, or because it
may be perceived incorrectly by the organization.
- You want someone to help you "check your logic" on difficult decisions, without appearing indecisive to your
organization.
- You want to get the many ancillary benefits that a world class consulting firm usually provides during the course of an
engagement (e.g. helping you resolving day to day issues, assessing the quality of internally produced analyses)
even when you do not have an engagement underway. Or perhaps your organization is not large enough to afford
the $1 million plus for a basic project from a large consulting firm or business advisor.
Fees
Fees for an Advisor On Call are negotiable depending on the extent and duration of contact expected and the number of
people in your organization that will be clients. The typical approach is to begin with a relatively short (3 month) trial
arrangement, and then adjust accordingly depending on usage. Fee arrangements can be based on retainer, or on a
totally variable basis -- you pay only for what you use. On call advisory services can be combined with other support to
reduce your overall fees. For example, if we are engaged to help you in an acquisition or a post merger management effort,
our advisor will be available to you on call for other issues as well.
First Call Advisors
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