- Provide skills not within firm
- Counter internal constraint
- Counter cognitive constraint
- As an aid to action without the brake of internal politics
- Mitigate risk
- Promotion of an executive agenda
- Change or challenge status quo
- Overcome internal resistance to change
- Achieve change with greater speed than allowed by internal organic change
- Pressure from Stakeholders
There is an inherent tension between an individual's private and internal sense of reality and the problem of finding a means of articulating that reality. It is suggested the role of the consultant provides a cogent and explicit form. Providing a model or artifact around which dialogue can develop. This model emerges as an antidote to the bounded limitation of the individual's capacity to interpret an increasingly complex world and the dysfunction and conflict that this might imply. Another factor might be speed. The consultant, being an external party, is not mired in internal politics of the organization.