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I think a bigger reason is “nobody ever got fired for hiring McKinsey.”

• killingtime74 5y ago
  Didn’t that use to say IBM
  • p_l 5y ago
    And Cisco, and recently AWS/Azure
    • Guthur 5y ago
      Cisco is networking, and aws/azure are cloud services i don't think it's really the same as consulting. The horror story of some consultancy is akin to going to a palm reader. Whereas the example you have is more like going to buy a family car and getting upsold to a Ferrari. There is nothing wrong with the Ferrari you just should have known you only needed the Mazda. You still don't get what you wanted but one is selling you snake oil and the other is just good at sales.
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    • andi999 5y ago
      Using webex is hopefully an exception.
  • smcl 5y ago
    Originally yeah, but in time the saying became generalised for any big established company in a given space.