Tag: consulting
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Bedazzled by slides and data
During the 2000s, slides became even more ornate. Consultancies evolved their formatting rules, and created fancy data-dense charts. They learned that a 200 slide deck made clients feel like they got a lot for their money. E.g.: I vividly remember being shown the charts room in fund manager Fidelity’s huge London office. There were graphs…
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A project is what IBM delivered at e&. Custom integration, IBM Consulting on-site, bespoke architecture tailored to one customer’s requirements. It works, but it doesn’t scale. Every enterprise becomes its own implementation, with its own timeline, its own integration challenges, its own dependency on consulting availability. “A platform is repeatable. Channel partners can sell it.…
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Beyond mystic management mind-games
Searching for Cheap Tricks The amount of AI content and conversations out there is getting exhausting. It’s almost as bad as the burbling font of platform engineering content that gets rewritten and published each week. The below RAND paper and commentary got me thinking though: a lot of the AI talk is just talk about…
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How AI could make management consulting better, improve corporate strategy, and create new revenue for boutique consultancies
Midjourney: happy business woman reaching their five fingered hand out for a hand shake, 4K in the style of pixabay This is some really good thinking and actual tactics from Andrew on how big consultancies could use AI. His team works at EY, so they’re not just arm-chair speculating on a Saturday morning while watching…
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🗂 When is it Time to Say Goodbye to Accenture, Deloitte, IBM or KPMG?
Short plan for getting rid of outsources. upperedge.com/system-in…
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Link: Poor listening
“Back in 1997, I wrote an article for my consulting colleagues about blockers to listening. As I’m a hoarder, I still have them so here they are: baggage – extraneous clutter in our own brains which distracts from the conversation in hand inner noise – the conversation sets off a train of thoughts which, though…
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Link: Micro Focus belches as it struggles to digest HPE Software • The Register
“Operational difficulties fed into the financial results for Micro Focus’s half-year ended 30 April 2018 with sales down 8 per cent year-on-year to $1.974bn. Nearly all of the revenue lines were down with the exception of subscription and SaaS. Licence sales dropped 18.4 per cent to $396.4m, maintenance was down 3.5 per cent to $1.109bn,…
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