{"id":46047,"date":"2022-06-09T03:49:10","date_gmt":"2022-06-09T07:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/consultingquest.com\/?post_type=podcasts_smcs&#038;p=46047"},"modified":"2022-07-08T03:05:33","modified_gmt":"2022-07-08T07:05:33","slug":"purchasing-consulting-services","status":"publish","type":"podcasts_smcs","link":"https:\/\/consultingquest.com\/podcasts_smcs\/purchasing-consulting-services\/","title":{"rendered":"Purchasing Consulting Services: What&#8217;s so specific?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none; min-width: min(100%, 430px);\" title=\"Purchasing Consulting Services: What\u2019s so specific\" src=\"https:\/\/www.podbean.com\/player-v2\/?i=57ih7-1246f39-pb&amp;from=pb6admin&amp;pbad=0&amp;share=1&amp;download=1&amp;rtl=0&amp;fonts=Arial&amp;skin=f6f6f6&amp;font-color=auto&amp;logo_link=episode_page&amp;btn-skin=ff6d00\" width=\"100%\" height=\"150\" scrolling=\"no\" data-name=\"pb-iframe-player\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span data-doc-id=\"4719458000000844001\" data-doc-type=\"writer\">It&#8217;s a common notion that purchasing consulting services is complicated. Without attempting to understand the factors that add to the complexity or explore ways to simplify the process, some companies just choose not to purchase consultancy despite their need for it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-doc-id=\"4719458000000844001\" data-doc-type=\"writer\">Others just take the plunge without first trying to understand the nitty-gritty of procuring complex professional services that are intangible and hence, hard to measure.<\/span><\/p>\n<span class=\"et_bloom_bottom_trigger\"><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Purchasing consulting services is complicated. In this episode of our smart consulting sourcing series, Helene takes a close look at the factors that differentiate purchasing consulting services from any tangible products and even less complicated services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":46048,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","categories":[209,211],"class_list":["post-46047","podcasts_smcs","type-podcasts_smcs","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scs-podcast","category-spend-right"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/consultingquest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/podcasts_smcs\/46047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/consultingquest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/podcasts_smcs"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/consultingquest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/podcasts_smcs"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/consultingquest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/consultingquest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46047"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/consultingquest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/consultingquest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/consultingquest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}