Some interesting Comments
i’m an independent engineering consultant of 20+ years during that time I’ve shared office space with consultants from companies like McKinley who are 2 to 3 years out of university. some of which seem out of their depth, lacking industrial experience. Those are the individuals i see as the target for the technological shift we’re experiencing. Industry experts turned consultants however will remain invaluable.. having knowledge at your fingertips tips is not the same as knowing if it’t the right solution to the question you had. real life experience matters and that’ll continue to be rewarded in my opinion.
Large consulting firms provided CEOs with a credible rationale for the decisions they made. What was being purchased was not a service, but rather a form of insurance policy.
Exactly what I've been trying to tell everyone since 2023. AI has eliminated the need for hiring "experts" and shifts the emphasis back onto delivery. But true consulting is supported by battle-tested experience, and it's the consulting firms who have historically made a living by hiring out "junior" resources as "senior" consultants that are struggling the most right now. No expertise = no value. Experience + AI = that's a winning hand.
15 years of running a successful IT consultancy with 100+ employees, we are doomed. Closing the doors in about 6 months > moving into the product with 5% of the team
As an MIS professor, I discovered process mining a year ago with Celonis and saw the great shift from consultant driving the work to data and systems driving the work. The value creation is huge and the control gets back to us, away from consultants' typical speech....
Probably didn’t help that a lots of consulting gigs were increasing staffed by juniors, and other sub-optimal persons, who would just shovel things out to rack up billable hours. Midwit slop is easily replaced by AI slop.
