Have a long term client where there has been a change of guards -a new Director of IT.

Have a long term client where there has been a change of guards -a new Director of IT. I am a subcontractor for a consulting firm. Advised the owner of the consulting company (a woman) for which I am employed that the new Director of IT has different expectations and requested a zoom meeting. He said in an email " I have had consulting in my remit for over 20 years and this is not an effective or tenable approach" What does he mean by "my remit"? I scheduled the meeting.

Looking for your input on the following: We have not met the new Director. I am the person who has been communicating with him via email.. Note: the client has been paying our invoices... so all good there... he wants us to provide information differently. I send several emails to him regarding contracts with vendors that will expire and needs his attention so the rates are not renewed at the current contract rate or to higher rates. He mentioned a "Dashboard" . Currently the information is provided in Excel spreadsheets or emails Need your input on the following: 1) Does the Dashboard makes sense or do you have other suggestions ? 2) Do you think it makes sense to show him the reports I prepare and ask him what he is looking for? Thank you so much for your input... You are always so helpful!

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  1. Anonymous

    They may be looking to move whatever services your company provides in-house.
    At my company, we went from all internal IT staff, to contractor (mostly our internal folks all switched to the contractor that won the bid), back to internal. You can certainly give him a copy of the raw data report so he knows what you can provide under your current process, but be careful about giving him too much information. If he wants to cut ties and hire internally, he needs to at least pay y'all if you're going to give him the blueprints to do it.

  2. Anonymous

    Thank you for your observation.. good point!

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