Consultancies. Bargaining unit work may be performed by retired unit employees via consultant contract by mutual agreement between the District and the Union.
Consultancies. 4.1. Security Screening Security industry consultants must be screened to BS 7858.
Consultancies. There are no subsisting contracts for the provision by any person of any consultancy services to the Company.
Consultancies. In the event of involuntary termination, the Executive shall be entitled to receive any fees for services as a consultant pursuant to any employment agreement between the Corporation and the Executive, in such amounts and for such period of time as such agreement may provide, and the Corporation's obligation to pay such fees shall not be diminished by any of the provisions hereof.
Consultancies. For Sub-project preparation, evaluation and monitoring.
Consultancies. Utilization of consultants’ services for: (a) Sub- project preparation including feasibility studies; and
Consultancies. For mapping the future environment and drawing strategic implications, companies and networks can rely on internal competences, partly even internal foresight departments, working groups etc. In addition, they may draw on external competence, such as services offered by consultancies. With a focus on innovating with IT, Xxxxxxx has shown that consultants may fulfill various roles in supporting innovation with IT via strategy consulting, technology assessment etc. for individual firms (Xxxxxxx 2010). In addition, he stressed their role beyond innovation in single companies, as they also function as intermediaries for the broader community, if not whole industries, by moving across companies, contributing to interpreting innovations and market developments, legitimating innovations, up to supporting hype around particular innovations (see also below and (Xxxxxxx and Xxxxxxxx 2010)). Xxxxxxx and Xxxxx conducted a study among a sample of 88 Californian enterprises investigating the actual use of consultancy services, and found that three quarter of the respondents used IT services of consultants; most popular were the use of reports and attending events organized by consultancies, with almost half making use of specific consultancy services (Xxxxx and Xxxxxxx 2005). Firms considered these services and products most important for scanning and comprehending trends and innovations, less so for making strategic implications, which often requires specific knowledge of the firm and its context. In line with this, respondents considered consultancies’ services particularly useful due to their knowledge of and moving about among various other actors in an industry, thus stressing implicitly that they may also be important for supporting innovation at the level of ecosystems and industries. Firth and Xxxxxxx differentiate between three types of users: proactive users making regular and planned use of consultancy services, situational users who do so only occasional and ad hoc, and reactive users taking an in-between position. The more regular and organized consultancies were used, the more useful their services were considered. Non-users partly preferred to rely on general information freely available and on their own network of relevant firms which may even be available to provide information more tailored to their circumstances. We may interpret this cautiously as indicating that mapping exercises conducted at the level of an innovation network may possibly strike a ...
