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Before we start, this article is about consultation, not consultants . Consultation is the process of engaging stakeholders, gathering perspectives, understanding risks, and building support for change. Whether you use external consultants in Hawaiin shirts or not is a separate discussion. Most school project failures are not caused by technology. They are often caused by people. More specifically, they are often caused by getting consultation wrong. Having worked on dozens o

I have to look back many years. Back when a single question could bring an entire office to a halt: “Hey… who has that document open?” Then the scramble would begin. People would check shared drives. Someone would walk down the hall. Someone else would yell across the office trying to find the person who had the file locked. Once the person was found, one of several things might happen. They might get chastised. They might get a few dirty looks. Or everyone might simply accep