• Expertise -  Most organizations make strategic planning a part-time activity.  As such they don't ever become experts at the strategic planning process.   Engineers spend most of their time engineering...Bakers baking.  We're strategic planners...we spend most of our time developing strategies.
• Objectivity -  Consultants can bring fresh new ideas into an organization from outside the organization's political structure.  Consultants are paid to provide their honest opinion and that honesty is one of the greatest benefits of hiring a consultant.
• Independence -  Consultants are used to working with minimum supervison.  Managers don't need to supervise them much. 
• Time -   Your organization doesn't have it.... but a consultant's time can be reserved and can be focused on specific projects.
• Availability - Hiring a new employee it can take months.   A consultant is available at your call almost instantly with just a call.
• No Long Term Commitment - Consultants provide the ultimate in flexibility in human resources.  They are hired and released at will with none of the processes required to release an employee such as severance, notices etc.  
• Price!  -  Yes, the biggest misconception of all is that consultant's cost more than regular employees.  This is simply not true.  Once all the costs are added according to Salary.com the median annual cost (salary plus benefits, bonuses etc) of a Top Strategic Planning Executive in the United States is $344,697. Add recruiting costs the you can expect first year costs of  $430,874 for a Top Strategic Planning Executive.

Plus permanent employees don't guarantee your satisfaction....we do.