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Honestly I'm now wondering how much of these "startegy/management consultants" jobs could be automated with AI. I mean from my understanding their primary work

Honestly I'm now wondering how much of these "startegy/management consultants" jobs could be automated with AI. I mean from my understanding their primary work product is a slide deck.

MarkMarine 4y ago
I get the sense that the price you pay for the advice and the perceived work that goes into it has a direct relationship with how you take and act on that advice, at least for the people and orgs that consume these consulting services. Having an AI spit out slides would cheapen the effect, to the point where you might as well listen to the other people in the room with you instead of their AI.
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version_five 4y ago
Consultants make leadership feel good or look good, reduce cognitive load, provide cover for decisions, many other things along those lines, none of which are about a deck, which is incidental. They have to, as a firm, have the appearance of being vaunted and smart, otherwise it doesn't work, so the institutional credibility, regardless of whether one believes objectively in its merit, is important. I'm not saying it's good or bad, but the sooner you realize that the problems consultants are solving are almost certainly not the "technical" problem in front of them, the sooner you understand the industry
- vhdI27 4y ago
  Bingo
blululu 4y ago
I enjoy a good laugh at the expense of management consultants, and I honestly thought that chat GPT really reminded me of their style. But while slide decks are the only tangible thing consultants produce, they represent a very small amount of the value that consultants bring. Until you can get an AI to navigate cutthroat C-level politics, and defend a strategy from attacks by internal factions that trying to undermine any rivals then I don't think AI will be able to do much.
- DrBenCarson 4y ago
  Bingo. MBB consultants' real value is giving executives the breathing room to be able to execute what's in the deck (i.e., driving consensus and navigating difficult politics)
- zmgsabst 4y ago
  AI seems particularly adept at that: - propose solution - insist that all feedback must be to ChatAI - exhaust people who disagree while ChatAI politely insists on its view - call anyone who works outside the ChatAI “not a team player” - insist they’re not being constructive because they’re “not adding feedback into the process” - remove those who persist in not arguing with the wall or complying, using their refusal to “do the job” with ChatAI - proceed with your original PowerPoint

Honestly I'm now wondering how much of these "startegy/management consultants" jobs could be automated with AI. I mean from my understanding their primary work product is a slide deck.

MarkMarine 4y ago

I get the sense that the price you pay for the advice and the perceived work that goes into it has a direct relationship with how you take and act on that advice, at least for the people and orgs that consume these consulting services. Having an AI spit out slides would cheapen the effect, to the point where you might as well listen to the other people in the room with you instead of their AI.

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version_five 4y ago

Consultants make leadership feel good or look good, reduce cognitive load, provide cover for decisions, many other things along those lines, none of which are about a deck, which is incidental. They have to, as a firm, have the appearance of being vaunted and smart, otherwise it doesn't work, so the institutional credibility, regardless of whether one believes objectively in its merit, is important. I'm not saying it's good or bad, but the sooner you realize that the problems consultants are solving are almost certainly not the "technical" problem in front of them, the sooner you understand the industry

vhdI27 4y ago
Bingo

blululu 4y ago

I enjoy a good laugh at the expense of management consultants, and I honestly thought that chat GPT really reminded me of their style. But while slide decks are the only tangible thing consultants produce, they represent a very small amount of the value that consultants bring. Until you can get an AI to navigate cutthroat C-level politics, and defend a strategy from attacks by internal factions that trying to undermine any rivals then I don't think AI will be able to do much.

DrBenCarson 4y ago
Bingo. MBB consultants' real value is giving executives the breathing room to be able to execute what's in the deck (i.e., driving consensus and navigating difficult politics)
zmgsabst 4y ago
AI seems particularly adept at that: - propose solution - insist that all feedback must be to ChatAI - exhaust people who disagree while ChatAI politely insists on its view - call anyone who works outside the ChatAI “not a team player” - insist they’re not being constructive because they’re “not adding feedback into the process” - remove those who persist in not arguing with the wall or complying, using their refusal to “do the job” with ChatAI - proceed with your original PowerPoint