The UK Government Consultancy Playbook frames effective consultancy commissioning around outcomes, value for money and the creation and transfer of client knowledge and skills.
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Comparison
Teho complements expert consulting with a reusable evidence model
Should we commission traditional consulting or use Teho?
Expert consulting is valuable when the problem is ambiguous, stakeholder judgement is central or a broad transformation needs facilitation. Teho is narrower: it establishes a bounded evidence model of the work, produces a ranked decision and preserves a basis for checking what changed later.
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- Reviewed:
- 2026-07-18
- Expires:
- 2026-10-16
Decision value
Choose expert consulting for open-ended diagnosis, policy, design or change leadership. Choose Teho when the decision can be grounded in a defined work question and the organisation wants comparable evidence rather than a one-time recommendation alone.
Best fit and not best fit
Best fit when
- The question is broad, ambiguous or primarily requires expert facilitation.
- Policy, operating-model design or complex stakeholder change is the main need.
Not the best fit when
- The organisation needs a repeatable team-level evidence baseline before deciding.
- The sponsor needs a defined post-change comparison rather than a standalone recommendation.
Decision detail
What to check before acting
Method and judgement can be combined
Consultants can use Teho as an evidence layer inside a wider engagement. The boundary should make ownership of the client relationship, interpretation, intervention and follow-through explicit.
Preserve capability and evidence
A useful engagement should leave the client with the knowledge, evidence and decision method needed to act—not only a presentation at the end of the project.
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