McKinsey Woes, A Heartrending Story . . .

[trajan]

A very readable piece on last issue of the Sunday Times tells us that the famed #1 global management consultancy is overstaffed, underworked and, lately at least, trading outside its established zones of expertise to get revenue.

Apparently someone in McKinsey UK broke cover to write a letter on the current corporate culture inside the company and it leaked to certain chaps from Fleet St.

It can't be a surprise that McKinsey's partners would be free of temptation to take on jobs best avoided, moreover when they are short of income and loath to cut staff loose.

 

[Purple]

A very readable piece on last issue of the Sunday Times

Only if you have a subscription...

 

[thedaddyman]

If you are talking to anyone in an Irish govt quango these days, a huge number of them have been body-shopped in from the consultancy firms as project managers, technical experts, finance etc. It must be costing a fortune

 

[trajan]

@Purple

Did the best I could with a phone pic.

Just about readable.

The James O'McKinsey instead of James O. McKinsey is curious. Could it be a voice-to-text typo from a scribe too lazy to type ? Or is it in fact genuine ignorance - or worse still an attempt to portray the founder as a chancer Irish-American ? McKinsey's wikipedia page is clear enough on the name.

 

[mathepac]

If you are talking to anyone in an Irish govt quango these days, a huge number of them have been body-shopped in from the consultancy firms as project managers, technical experts, finance etc. It must be costing a fortune

And still the numbers of cost and time over-runs and missing deliverables continue to multiply. "But so like hey, look, listen,- we had management consultants on board from day 1, like, not our fault. "

 

[cremeegg]

And still the numbers of cost and time over-runs and missing deliverables continue to multiply. "But so like hey, look, listen,- we had management consultants on board from day 1, like, not our fault. "

Shh @Leper might overhear you.