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How to become a successful IT consultant

Remenyi, D., (1944-)

How to become a successful IT consultant

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	How to become a successful IT consultantDan Remenyi.
Author:	Remenyi, D.,
Published:	Oxford :Butterworth-Heinemann,2003.
Description:	xiv, 166 p. :ill., 1 port. ;26 cm.
Series:	Computer weekly professional series
Subject:	Electronic data processing consultants.
Online resource:	An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click for information
ISBN:	9780750648615

How to become a successful IT consultant
Remenyi, D.,1944-

How to become a successful IT consultant[electronic resource] /Dan Remenyi. - Oxford :Butterworth-Heinemann,2003. - xiv, 166 p. :ill., 1 port. ;26 cm. - Computer weekly professional series.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Consultancy- a major opportunity for IT professionals; Is IT consultancy for you?; Setting up your IT consultancy business; The consultancy options; Pick you service offerings; Finding clients for your IT consulting business; Planning the IT consultancy assignment; Delivering results for the client; Finding the next client; Consulting and finding a product to sell; Keep your eye on the ball; Minding your own business; Appendices.

'How to Become a Successful IT Consultant' is a practical book for anyone considering setting themselves up as an IT consultant. It is essential reading for those contemplating such a career change. Today IT consulting has become a major opportunity for many IT professionals who want to work for themselves. It is no longer only the domain of the high-flying international organization. In fact tens of thousands of IT professionals are leaving their regular jobs to set up as IT consultants on their own. Although there are many consulting opportunities available it is quite a challenge to make a success of your own IT consulting business. There are a lot of things to think about and many decisions to be made. For those who get it right there is a very exciting and highly lucrative business career ahead. This book takes the IT professional through all the key issues which have to be understood and explains how to optimize your chances of developing a long-term IT consulting business of your own. This practical book explains what is involved in setting up your own business as an IT Consultant. It explains the opportunities involved and gives practical advice as to how to take advantage of them. The book looks at the full range of issues concerned with getting started and maintaining your business and gives practical guidelines about how to face the many challenges which you will encounter if you leave your job and set up on your own. Amongst the many issues involved this book specifically addresses:how to find clients; how to get more business and the opportunities areas available; how to price your services; the funding you will require; how to plan your consulting assignments And much more... This book is an essential reading for anyone who is seriously thinking about taking this big career step. Shows how to set up your own business as an IT consultant Explains the opportunities involved and offers practical advice on how to take advantage of them Shows how to find clients and how to price your services.

Electronic reproduction.
Amsterdam :
Elsevier Science & Technology,
2009.

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

ISBN: 9780750648615

Source: 93604:93603Elsevier Science & Technologyhttp://www.sciencedirect.comSubjects--Topical Terms:

454722
Electronic data processing consultants.
Index Terms--Genre/Form:

214472
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: HD69.C6 / R46 2003

Dewey Class. No.: 004.068

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