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Yep, some of the most added value I have seen in consulting was essentially taking recommendations that department A was unsuccessfully requesting for a long ti
by PeterisP 6y ago
Yep, some of the most added value I have seen in consulting was essentially taking recommendations that department A was unsuccessfully requesting for a long time already and getting department B to actually implement them, i.e. an organizational shortcut enabling something that simply wasn't possible given their current structure.
Pretty much every large company has a lot of good things that they aren't doing because of their dysfunctional internal bureaucracy that causes them to disregard good proposals (and sometimes intentionally sabotage them for reasons of internal politics) until they are re-packaged by some expensive consultants for top management blessing.
- systemBuilder 6y agoAgreed; my dad interviewed to be a VP at Lockheed in the 1960s and eventually turned down the job saying, "All your problems are political! None are technical!"
- perl4ever 6y agoAt my previous job, I used to sit in meetings thinking all the problems were political/communication, and those are the only interesting ones. Over the years, I didn't come to the conclusion "I want to be insulated from non-technical problems" (which is an easy thing to achieve) but rather "I want to be involved in solutions that are technically trivial, but solve organizational issues". Because those are the ones where the most leverage and meaning exists.