Having owned and led a consulting firm for the past thirteen years, I’ve become a student of the art of managing risks associated with outsourced projects.

In this Risk Mitigation Guide, I outline the top ten risks involved in working with consultants or agencies, and how to protect yourself from each of these major pitfalls.

The one thing I know for sure is that successful client-agency relationships don’t happen by accident. They take a deliberate, sustained approach to collaborating in a productive, creative and efficient fashion. And when that happens, all the ingredients are in place to have truly breakthrough results.