You are no longer relevant. Your articles are at best immature and something a junior PM would write. Between this one here and the one that spoke about measuring developer productivity, it's clear you have no idea what you are talking about and worse, no idea how to be relevant to tech companies. #ai #tech #mckinsey #consultants
This has to be a joke
One of the 3 biggest and most profitable strategy consulting companies in the world -- hired by everyone from top business leaders to national governments -- is "no longer relevant." Lol. Classic SWE that thinks SWE are gods and nobody else matters.
They aren’t though. They are only as good as the talent they attract. They basically rent out minds and haven’t been able to attract the top ones in over a decade. The profile that used to go MBB goes directly to tech now (and I’m not talking about SWEs). Think about it, you’re a top candidate at a top school. Do you go MBB and do the consulting up-or-out grind for 70+ hrs a week plus travel for a company that most people have never heard of or do you go work at Google or Facebook for more money and make “day in the life” TikToks while you soak up all the office perks between your maybe 30 hrs of actually work?
…plenty of folks still go into MBB.
Can someone tell me what’s wrong with post? I cannot get it, just seems like another marketing post to me
Tell me how else would you explain to a CEO that asks McKinsey or his team, if they should make Gen AI investment, cause the CEO read in WSJ that GenAI is next big thing. First one needs to break down what GenAI can do for their organization. The referenced screenshot is simple and basic, yes, but It explains how a generative model can fit into their organization and with customer use-cases. Most of McKinsey’s knowledge work is to educate the C-suite, and bringing them up-to speed. So a lot of language on technical topics is deliberately simple to provoke a conversation. Remember, most folks in tech/valley are NOT their customers. Its CTOs and CIOs of companies Heinz, or Conagra foods etc.
I agree but it’s also scary that C-suite at large industry companies isn’t educated on these topics. It’s not too hard to get up to speed vs paying someone 400 dollars and hour to spell it out via slide decks.
Its not scary, it just tells me how much of a bubble, we silicon valley folks live in. One doesn’t have to know a lot of tech stuff to be successful in ones career. In fact, for most companies in the world, tech is a cost center, not a profit center.
What is wrong with the article? It’s just a high level diagram
The consulting firms will always be needed and relevant because who else will take the fall for bad business decisions. A business executive can outsource decisions and not be on the hook when shit goes south.
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Pure bs hahahahahahaahah love those guys making billions just bullshitting aorund
The crusp of corporate was built with mediocrity in mind. Even tech (but more innovative). If you realize the amount of scrutiny your or anyone's work will go through if given to experienced academics, you might realize your question might be better reframed as A difference of opinion. And yes all consulting giants just like various different industries are gonna flourish financially no matter what closer to accurate understanding is...
Who cares, companies pay them multi millions for a couple weeks worth of advice.