What do you think of this viewpoint from the CEO of a mid-size engineering company who wants to drive their business forwards? 

“Consultants sell maturity models to scare me witless".

The last time I had someone in to do a current state review of our strategic process, they probed many areas which just didn’t need probing. Challenges were far too contentious to break down at that point in time. They said the senior team needed to be interviewed individually for their perspectives. ‘No’ I said – ‘we have good relationships – let’s go through it together and we should focus on important stuff for now, not those other distractions’. 

During the session, there was lots of arm folding, very little desire to share opinion, and so many attempts to go off agenda. Perhaps the other areas were not just distractions after all? The summary the consultant made at the end of the session was so negative and kicked us all over the place.

"Complete waste of time in progress terms”.

We believe initial engagement around the possibilities offered in the BIG model, and a non-threatening maturity questionnaire would have got this process off the ground without tears at bed time…. 

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