{"id":1455,"date":"2009-09-15T18:26:48","date_gmt":"2009-09-16T01:26:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.12sided.com\/blog\/?p=1455"},"modified":"2009-09-15T18:26:48","modified_gmt":"2009-09-16T01:26:48","slug":"the-ford-model","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.effgen.us\/?p=1455","title":{"rendered":"The FORD model"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting read on the Verasage Institute blog on consulting. Check <a href=\"http:\/\/www.verasage.com\/index.php\/community\/comments\/ford_a_model_for_consulting\/\" target=\"_blank\">FORD \u2013 a model for consulting<\/a>. The Findings, Options, Recommendations and Decisions steps bring to mind the keep it simple mantra.<\/p>\n<p>Question: How do you know if you are overpaying for consulting?<\/p>\n<p>Answer: If you ask the consultant the time and he asks to see your watch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting read on the Verasage Institute blog on consulting. Check FORD \u2013 a model for consulting. The Findings, Options, Recommendations and Decisions steps bring to mind the keep it simple mantra. Question: How do you know if you are overpaying for consulting? Answer: If you ask the consultant the time&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[92,401,402],"class_list":["post-1455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reads","tag-consulting","tag-reads","tag-thoughts"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.effgen.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.effgen.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.effgen.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.effgen.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.effgen.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.effgen.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1455\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.effgen.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.effgen.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.effgen.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}