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The essence of consulting business is that if you ask a consultant what the time is, they take your watch, look at it, tell you the time, and keep the watch. O
by PeterisP 5y ago
The essence of consulting business is that if you ask a consultant what the time is, they take your watch, look at it, tell you the time, and keep the watch.
On the other hand, there is real value unlocked by simply getting information from team A to team B in a dysfunctional organization that is totally unable to do it themselves; and most large organizations are dysfunctional in this sense.
- sdoering 5y agoExactly that. I work for an agency that was bought by global consulting conglomerate. This gave me insight into the workings at global companies that hire consultancies. At first I really didn't understand why these global companies shelled out this much money for consultants until I understood that more often than not it is the lines of communication these consultants open up. They make it possible for information to flow from one stratified silo into another. For IT to talk to marketing and marketing to talk to product. And so on. Not that I really enjoy the political side and the PowerPoint side of the job, but at least I understood some things better.