"Do we engage a Consultancy, System Integrator or Vendor for our delivery, or does our budget dictate we need to utilise recruitment agencies?""The Vendor or System Integrator allows for a delivery that is accountable, but will this prove cost prohibitive and does it allow us control?""Do we instead engage agencies to provide contractors under out management, but how do we ensure quality of delivery and continuity of knowledge?"These are just a number of the decisions Clients are faced with when deciding on delivery of their digital transformation, challenges we know all too well.With ever increasing demands on budgets, Clients often find themselves having to engage agencies to bolster their delivery capability. This model of engagement can prove time prohibitive, and although it resolves the challenge of cost and allows Client ownership, it also brings its own inherent risks. With an over reliance on advertising, agencies often take a reactive approach to recruitment engaging unknown resources due to not possessing a network of known, proven consultants.This was the exact conundrum we were faced with over ten years ago for our own project delivery as we found when engaging agencies, they didn't give us access to the independent niche consultants we required.So to ensure we could deliver quality, scalable consultancy without technology bias, we took the decision to not work with agencies and build our own channels to market. Instead of having an extensive in-house bench which would have affected our price competitiveness, and to make sure we had the depth of expertise at our disposal we required, we decided to build our own virtual bench in the form of a network of independent consultancies.The model over the years has developed and proved so successful it has evolved to support Client owned delivery as well as our own due to our ability to price point competitively to agencies.