While there are consultants who work well with IT departments and have some entrepreneurial spirit, their real stripes are as corporate IT balancers. As freelance contributors, that is. Companies should be careful. Typically, freelancers will listen to a new idea, write code to launch an application, then walk away. Companies may up the ante, but it's likely a code phenom will leave for a gig in Australia when the 90-day contract is up.
Cultural fit has higher stakes for dotcoms.
Enterprises that pin their futures on IT leadership can't afford to learn in midstream that their Y2K import doesn't intend to stay, mesh with colleagues or generate new ways of approaching tech solutions.