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[–] architectonas@lemmy.world 13 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

Why are consulting companies so successful? Is it all connections? Their role in appeasing investors by external intervention and change (no matter how useful)?

[–] Death_Equity@lemmy.world 22 points 17 hours ago

It is all connections and a box checking for the board and/or CEO.

The CEO can deflect bad outcomes on the consulting company for suggesting doing what the CEO had in mind to do, but didn't have the board's approval.

Corporate consulting is such a giant fucking grift and they are responsible for the enshitification of so much.

Why are there no employees to help you on the sales floor or at the register? The CEO wanted to hit a performance metric to maximize their bonus and brought in a consulting company to advise. The consulting company looked for low-hanging fruit, which is cutting costs in the form of payroll. The CEO dips when there is no meat left on the bone. The next CEO hires a consulting company to maximize the bonus and then you get fake sales to mask a following price increase. CEO dips and the next CEO's consultants gives the consumer a rewards program to harvest data to sell and drive sales through psychological manipulation(See Kohl's cash).

Corporate consultants are horrible people with business degrees looking to harvest marrow from a stripped corpse.

[–] GenosseFlosse@feddit.org 4 points 13 hours ago

Consulting companies are just esoteric quacks but for businesses.