Whether your team enters consulting negotiations with comparable market knowledge to the firms across the table. Category benchmarking exists to close exactly this gap.

Whether anyone in the organisation can see the full picture of consulting spend across business units, not just within one. A shared spend taxonomy is what makes that possible.

Whether what your organisation learned about a firm’s actual performance survives past the people who managed the engagement. Structured performance capture at project close is the chanism that preserves it.

Whether familiarity with a firm is ever tested against the alternatives, or simply assumed to be the right call. Panel testing and mini-competitions are what make that comparison routine.