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Why Hire a Creative Operations Guide?

To Improve the Procurement Process and Project Planning to Build Effective, Equitable Provisional Project Teams

Since the 1970s, large organizations began to shrink their full time staff. Advice fro, global Management Consulting firms like McKinsey changed the face of work forever. Even our federal, state, and local government began moving away from W-2 employees in favor of outsourcing labor. 4 decades later, we’ve seen the rise of the gig economy, sharing economy, coworking spaces, remote work, and ever-growing solopreneurship. These shifts are here to stay. 75% of the Fortune 500 plan to hire more independent contractors or consultants within the next year.

These larger organizations like the Department of Education or Fortune 500s established their intent to hire “diverse” small businesses. Like the SBA who created set-asides to intentionally park contracts for certified small businesses, they continue to miss their targets. Intention < Impact.

Whether they intend to or not, small vendors and startups, especially women-owned and minority-owned businesses continue to be harmed by inequitable, inaccessible RFP processes and exploitative procurement practices. Updating and tweaking in small, performative ways has resulted in outcomes for those already underestimated and experiences that are in full opposition to supposed DEI efforts.

The result? Founders and consultants from marginalized backgrounds and underinvested communities are getting screwed. It’s no longer anecdotal; the inequality in these corporate-to-vendor relationships has been confirmed, repeatedly.

What’s worse? The large institutions continue to hire big consultancies to audit these problems, keeping wealth with the 1% and making zero moves towards the changes in their DEI statements and social posts. If we are supposed to center those impacted in the problem, why do they keep outsourcing to consultants who charge $1500-2000/hour to “look into it.”

When multi-billion dollar corporations and government agencies hire the Big 3 it adds insult to injury. These consultancies are responsible for some of the biggest crisis we face in the current economy yet they are trusted to dictate the future? One way to close wealth gaps would be to hire different management consultants, don’t you think?

Instead they award millions to agencies doing research and strategy by lifting ideas from smaller orgs and progressive communities. Governments and state-funded organizations continue to use taxpayer dollars to hire the good ol’ boys for reports and strategic plans while exploiting smaller, independent consultants and creators already doing the work every day.

Is your org putting their money where their morality is?

No more posturing. No more PR statements. Budgets don’t lie.

Hire Collective Consultants to deliver on your strategic marketing promises to build “business for good.”

coFLOWco research, operations, and academics experts provide Future of Work Reports, Organizational Development Audits, Creative Operations and Team Resource Management, RFP Assessments, Considered Policies, Employee Brand Communications and Design including Company Guidebooks, Decks, Campaigns and Events.

To shift wealth to the 99%, hire us first. We are the Future of Work, and the future of work does NOT work without us.

It’s time for you to Do The Work, too!