Big3 mgmt consultant here. Worked in the IT for 10+ years before becoming a consultant. Enjoying it. Here are my two cents for a balanced perspective. On a rec

Big3 mgmt consultant here. Worked in the IT for 10+ years before becoming a consultant. Enjoying it. Here are my two cents for a balanced perspective. On a recent project we - made the C suite hard-stop an IT program that had a projected cost/time overrun of three figure mUSD and two years, while the operative levels were still riding the dead horse - Pulled long hours for 4 months straight to come up with a new solution approach that was technically feasible AND (techies might not get that this is important) at the same time acceptable to the stakeholders and employees The recommendation that we gave was exactly the opposite of what the C exec who hired us thought would be the best solution when we started. It was not the 45 slides that were the hard work. The hard work was to get the facts together, engage in difficult conversations with all levels of the organization, creating conviction to change course without giving anybody the feeling that what they did before was wrong.