In our experience, the most successful projects have involved a hybrid blending of all three kinds of consultant roles: expert, pair-of-hands and collaborative. Still, these highly successful projects were predominantly collaborative in nature.
These are the key areas of collaboration:
While we prefer working in a collaborative relationship with our clients, sometimes our clients only need an expert, or a pair-of-hands. We are happy, therefore, to serve our clients in whichever role they are comfortable with, and meets their needs.