it's the political cover to make changes they knew they should make all along No argument here. Every single time that I've been in an organization that has b

it's the political cover to make changes they knew they should make all along No argument here. Every single time that I've been in an organization that has brought in management consultants, the results of their work were almost exactly in line with advice that we had been feeding upper management for some time. It's infuriating to have the right answers to solve problems while people at the top ignore good advice and then spend huge amounts of money to get that good advice repeated to them by other people. Even worse is when upper management acts like the consultant advice is the first time they've heard those recommendations.