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> 2. Doing a bunch of pretend work so you can come to the conclusion the VP wanted in the first place. I was once a contractor at a company that had been acqui
by jimnotgym 3y ago
> 2. Doing a bunch of pretend work so you can come to the conclusion the VP wanted in the first place.
I was once a contractor at a company that had been acquired twice. The Finance lead all off a sudden had a big team of people, and he lacked the imagination to use them effectively. His team were a waste of space. His solution was to hire a consultancy to 'benchmark' the size of the Finance team. Guess what they found...all of the acquired people had to go!
I felt he lacked the backbone to just make a decision himself.
- mgkimsal 3y agoSeems like definitely a CYA move. Some things seem intuitively 'right' but following that intuition isn't always necessarily the best move. But right or wrong, many folks want a CYA card, and hiring external consulting group is usually it.
- Scoundreller 3y agoI think I just realized why an org I worked for would never hire a consultancy to do that: our peer organizations would find that we're much smaller than we should be.