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.
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
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.
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. "
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. "