We had McKinsey consultants restructure the dev delivery system in a company I worked at. They started off by laying off all British and American developers and moving everything offshore. All that remained were BA and Product Owners who would draw up spec and liase between the business and the devs. None of the McKinsey Consultants had ever worked in a dev team. The results were horrific. Dev times which had previously been a few weeks to do something started to become months. Worst part was the sheer level of technical debt that started to grow and was never addressed as the McKinsey consultants didn't know they had to deal with technical debt so didnt write it in to their processes. The company for the next few years made record profits due to the lowered wage bill. However now the company is screwed. The company is no longer a big player in its market as it is totally unable to develop new products etc.

Great vid, would like to see more stuff like this

Wow I find this so fascinating. A friend's son started recently at McKinsey and I think he is on his way to some pretty amazing things in life and ultimately wants to end up in start ups in Silicon Valley - what a surprise right?! I think he will succeed - he's truly brilliant. I enjoyed this conversation so much. Thank you!

SIMPLE QUESTION: WHAT EXACTLY does the top 3 do that cannot be done internally? Like the VERY VERY specifics, someone tell me please. What is the name of that deliverable(s)?

That was a weird image ,I will watch it again ,Dr Peterson ?

all I know is that management is the only consulting jig where you hire consultants with the least experience possible doing the actual thing you're hiring them to consult on. Look it's one thing if you're hiring them to take the blame for your plan to cut workers and pay to bump up the stock price, that's lame but that's actually understandable and everyone involved is getting what they expect... but actually hiring them to give real advice? I've no clue...

Highjacking is an art

Speed it up ,get in with it

2010 is significant

Adam? Has the right name

"here's an idea, how about you offshore all your work?" "Youll vastly reduce your costs and make record profits for a few years then of course the company will go broke, but by the time that happens youll be rich!"

Special

The white board

We stopped that BS in our work space

Stealing my intelligence and then throwing it in my face

Weird

When slime balls share themes and narratives

This is ridiculous