Preparing Your Organization for Outsourcing

Some of the benefits Iaquinta sees in working with consultants are:

• An organization or institution can work with people who know similar organizations' or institutions' benchmarks. "One of the benefits that's often overlooked by boards until it's pointed out to them ... is that by hiring an expert firm that does a lot of this work with agencies, universities or independent schools is that ... you get the benefit of what's working elsewhere, and benchmarking from their experience as to whether you're on track," Iaquinta says. "That's very helpful. It's reassuring to you and your board that you're using best practices."