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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So, seriously, why do consulting firms stay in business? This idea that they make obvious recs that the staff could have gotten to on their own for less money is fascinating. What didn’t the staff do that? Why doesn’t your exec team believe in you? I get the “politics cover for layoffs” or doing what the leader already wanted to do, but how can it be that people idiotically pay through the nose for consulting over and over again if it’s so terrible?[/quote]

Politics, as you said. Shifting blame. Need to use a certain amount of money by year-end to get the same budget next year (this is for federal “consulting”/contracting, which is a whole racket in and of itself). Consulting firms’ ideas also have potential to rake in insane amounts of money — for instance, we have McKinsey to thank for developing the sales strategy for Purdue’s OxyContin pills. McKinsey recently settled in court to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars for their role in the opioid crisis.

Most of the time, consulting firms are hired to cover the CEO’s ass. Sometimes, they’ll help a company take in beaucoup bucks are the expense of ethics. On the federal side, you’re paying for temps (really, warm bodies) with better skills that you can fire as you please. [/quote]

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