Consultancy
Build vs Buy
The decision to build a capability internally, buy it from a vendor, or outsource it via partner.
Related terms.
Full glossary- Advisory Retainer
- An ongoing engagement giving founders, CHROs or boards on-call access to senior workforce counsel.
- Diagnostic
- A structured review of the current workforce, spend, risk and systems to surface what to fix first.
- Fractional CHRO
- A senior people leader engaged part-time to cover the role until a full-time hire lands or scale demands one.
- RFP / RFQ
- Request for Proposal / Quotation — the structured tender process for selecting workforce, EOR or HR tech vendors.
- Vendor Selection
- A defensible, scored process for shortlisting and choosing providers without locking into the wrong stack.
