When a company hires a consulting firm they get advice on restructuring. The downside is all of your strategic advantage and innovative secrets and "leap ahead" products are no longer secrets. This is how consulting companies take over and control industry sectors. Intel executives sold the golden goose.
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Sounds like some sort of insider trading.
Does it really matter anymore?
Everybody is doing it in some way or another.
McKinsey, BCG, Booz Allen? Or another? In any case you’re right. All the consulting firms trade on their snide knowledge of competitors and get paid huge fees to tell mgmt what they already have decided.