Fund the right initiatives —
and measure what they deliver
Full portfolio visibility on consulting investment, structured intake to align spend with strategic priorities, and impact evaluation that makes every euro accountable. Built for Chief Strategy Officers and transformation leaders driving complex, multi-initiative programmes.
Your Top Strategy Priorities — and what changes when they are under control
Select the strategic challenge that matters most. The right-hand panel shows the operational result Consource is designed to deliver.
Portfolio visibility across the organisation
Consulting engagements are initiated at BU level, approved in silos, and rarely aggregated into a coherent portfolio view. Strategy leaders make investment decisions without knowing how much is already committed, where, and to what end.
What this looks like
- Consulting commitments scattered across BUs with no shared view
- Strategic decisions made on incomplete spend data
- No consolidated view of engaged vs. validated vs. paid amounts
- Supplier concentration risk hidden in fragmented reporting
What changes with Consource
- Real-time portfolio view of all consulting projects across BUs
- Dashboards reconciling pipeline, contracts, and execution
- Full traceability from strategic demand to project close
- One shared view instead of scattered local reporting
Strategy leadership gains a live, consolidated view of the entire consulting portfolio — so investment decisions are made with the full picture, not a partial one.
Aligning spend with strategic priorities
Business units source consulting support for their own priorities, often without reference to the broader strategic agenda. Budget gets consumed on initiatives that weren't at the top of the list, while high-priority transformation projects go under-resourced.
What this looks like
- Consulting demand initiated locally with no link to strategic priorities
- No intake structure to filter requests against the strategic agenda
- Budget drifts toward operational tasks rather than transformation
- Misalignment only visible at annual review — too late to correct
What changes with Consource
- Structured intake links every consulting request to a declared priority
- Portfolio view maps spend distribution against the strategic agenda
- Governance layer ensures only aligned projects move to sourcing
- Live visibility on alignment drift — not just at year-end
Strategy teams gain a structured mechanism to ensure consulting spend follows the agenda they set — rather than the path of least organisational resistance.
Arbitration between competing initiatives
When every initiative arrives labelled urgent, strategic, and impossible to postpone, prioritisation becomes a political sport rather than a capital allocation discipline. The loudest voice wins more often than it should.
What this looks like
- No common framework for comparing initiatives side by side
- Budget allocation driven by influence more than evidence
- High-impact projects lose ground to louder internal voices
- Little visibility on current commitments when new requests come in
What changes with Consource
- Portfolio-wide view of consulting demand — pending, active, and closed
- Collaborative scoring to compare initiatives objectively
- Live budget visibility before new commitments are approved
- Documented, auditable prioritisation process
Strategy leaders arbitrate between competing projects with evidence, timing, and budget context — rather than instinct and post-meeting regret.
Measuring impact at portfolio level
Individual projects get evaluated — if at all — in isolation. There is no mechanism to aggregate impact ratings, compare delivery performance across providers, or understand whether the consulting portfolio as a whole is generating the transformation return the organisation expected.
What this looks like
- No impact measurement framework applied consistently across projects
- Post-project evaluation optional and rarely completed
- Consulting treated as an expense line, not a portfolio of investments
- Portfolio performance invisible until the annual review
What changes with Consource
- Structured performance evaluation built into every project close
- Impact analysis aggregated at portfolio level across BUs
- Provider performance history informs future sourcing decisions
- Dynamic portfolio management — stop, reallocate, double down with data
Consulting moves from being an opaque cost centre to a measurable portfolio of strategic investments — with the data to show what worked, what didn't, and why.
Selecting providers on capability, not habit
Complex transformation projects demand specific capabilities — sector knowledge, methodology fit, team seniority, availability. Defaulting to established relationships without evaluating the market means missing better options and paying more than necessary.
What this looks like
- Panel defaults to familiar names rather than best fit for the brief
- No market intelligence to challenge incumbent pricing or scope
- Selection based on relationships rather than demonstrated capability
- Limited access to specialist or boutique firms outside the panel
What changes with Consource
- Access to 4,000+ consulting firm profiles with detailed capability data
- Automated matching surfaces best-fit providers for each brief
- Structured, side-by-side proposal comparison replaces gut-feel selection
- Performance history from past projects feeds future sourcing decisions
Transformation programmes get the providers best suited to the mandate — not just the ones who happened to be on the last project.
Works with your existing systems
Consource is built to run standalone from day one. You do not need an ERP integration project to get started, and you do not need to disrupt your existing financial or planning architecture to make the platform useful.
Your ERP and planning tools stay in place
ERP remains the financial authority for PO creation and payment validation. Strategy frameworks, OKRs, and planning documents live where they always have. Consource adds a consulting governance layer that connects strategic intent to project execution — without competing with your existing stack.
No more shadow workflows
Consulting governance too often lives in emails, spreadsheets, and shared drives. Consource consolidates that into one auditable platform — intake, sourcing, contracting, delivery, and evaluation — without interfering with your ERP or P2P foundation.
Start fast. Integrate when it adds value.
You do not need an integration project to get started. Once the platform is configured for your organisation — structure, approval workflows, governance rules, and cost centres — teams can begin using it quickly. ERP and P2P integrations are possible when they add value, but they are not a blocker to launch.
Strategy Leader FAQs
Common questions from CSOs and transformation leaders evaluating Consource.
Yes. Consource includes a structured intake process that anchors every consulting request to a declared strategic priority before it moves to sourcing. This means you can see — at any point — how your consulting portfolio maps to the strategic agenda, where spend is concentrated, and where gaps exist. The platform doesn't replace your strategy governance forums; it provides the data those forums need to make better decisions.
Consource gives you a portfolio view of all consulting projects and requests — active, pending, and proposed — with key attributes including scope, budget, BU, and strategic alignment. Stakeholders can score and compare initiatives side by side, creating a structured basis for prioritisation decisions. This replaces ad hoc lobbying with a documented, auditable process. Final prioritisation still relies on your existing governance committees — Consource provides the data layer, not the decision authority.
Yes. Project closure in Consource is structured — not optional. Every engagement ends with a performance evaluation, impact analysis, and executive summary captured within the platform. Over time, this builds a portfolio-level view of consulting ROI: which providers deliver, which initiative types generate the most value, and where consulting spend is genuinely moving the needle. This data feeds directly into future sourcing and prioritisation decisions.
ERP systems manage financial transactions — POs, payments, ledgers — not consulting sourcing or strategic impact evaluation. Generic project management tools handle task tracking, not consulting-specific governance: NDAs, RFPs, proposal comparison, conflict-of-interest declarations, or provider performance ratings. Consource fills the gap between strategic intent and financial record — everything that happens in between, from demand intake to project close, that no other tool in your stack was designed to handle.
Consource can be deployed without waiting for an ERP integration project. Once the platform is configured for your organisation — including structure, approval workflows, governance rules, and cost centres — teams can start using it quickly. Integrations can be added where they are useful, but they are not required to begin.
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