My group is working with one group right now and I do not see them as worth the big $ we pay for them. We still have several months with them and things can change, I doubt this though, we'll see. I just think they lack good understanding about our internal things and that's limiting them quite a bit. They are OK as it relates to communication, they are relatively well organized, etc. But that does not solve our problems and I think this will be a big waste of money. Oh, well...
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Solomon has done some very shoddy work and been paid very well for it.
The people who leave ExxonMobil for consultant companies think they are way more talented than they actually are, and are unhappy that ExxonMobil hasn’t given them even more undeserved accolades than they have already received.
So that is my opinion of contractors. They have failed at joining a for-life company in a meaningful way….and they probably look a lot like that awful middle-manager who thinks he is a Demi-god but only PowerPoints and plays politics.
Oh, and don’t forget that they are also farming your ideas to re-sell to other companies as their own. They are the dregs of the industry.
And let me caption this by saying these are the US ‘ideas’ consulting firms.
Foreign contractors hired to do a very specific task are usually quite upstanding and good at what they do. Completely different thing.
They're there to figure out the maximum that can be fired without compromising business continuity. They're worth it because they're not emotionally attached to anyone in this company and couldn't care less how your lives will be destroyed by their "structural savings/efficiencies" (see the Opi--d crises). And yes, they essentially summarize and regurgitate what rank and file say but no one listens to.
Hahaaa. C'mon. They are in business to make money . They tickle senior executive ball sacs and milk it for all it's worth. They don't give a good God darn about anything else.
corporate sustainability consultants we use (a big 4, not MBB) are worth every penny as it’s a competency that we don’t have internally, and waited a little too long to think about growing. This is more technical services though, and I found to be way more value than any management consulting services
They create structural savings. Of course they’re “worth” more than most rank-and-file employees.
The MBB consultants are smart, highly paid people. Their expertise is to repackage what rank and file folks like us tell but none listens.
They just make nice decks and present to management and everyone claps.
Charade continues to the next client
Most of the time they are all-talk-theory / best-practices, but no actual results or deliverables. Waste of capital.