The Guardian view on management consultants: overused, underperforming - The Guardian https://apple.news/AKsK9j6YhTJuA8ITgkmUIDg #managementconsultants #uk

See also Laleh Khalili on what #ManagementConsultants do (rob the public purse).

#bookreview
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v44/n24/laleh-khalili/in-clover

#managementconsultants call them 'alumni' networks;

Its really more like sleeper cells inserted into businesses who then 'wake-up' to ensure their previous employer is contracted to offer (usually tepid & cookie-cutter) advice at great costs.

This 'network' of agents or collaborators is (partly at least) why #corporations continue to buy advice that again & again can be seen to be at best worthless & sometimes actually harmful!

[p.s.; so like 'curate', 'alumni' has been repurposed in meaning]

More on the 'outdoor relief' for the #professionalservices class... after earlier this week the Govt. dropped limitations on budget allocations to #consultants (not the medical sort), it now emerges that the #NHS spent over £80m on #managementconsultants last year - there's no money for a wage rise for #nurses, but there's plenty to fund the big firms offering 'advice' on how to deal with the #NHScrisis (in itself a crisis brought about by defunding!)

@openDemocracy
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/nhs-consultants-spending-millions-2022-covid/

"The primary product sold by all #ManagementConsultants (..) is the theology of #capital. This holds that #workers are expendable. (..) #Managers are necessary to the functioning of corporations – or universities, or non-profit organisations – and the more of them the better."

#LalehKhalili reviews #WaltBogdanich & #MichaelForsythe's #WhenMcKinseyComesToTown: The Hidden Influence of the World’s Most Powerful Consulting Firm

#McKinsey #books #ManagementCulture

#LRB

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v44/n24/laleh-khalili/in-clover

"The primary product sold by all management consultants – both software developers and strategic organisers – is the theology of capital. This holds that workers are expendable. They can be replaced by machines, or by harder-working employees" Thorough critique of McKinsey, Deloitte, E&Y, KPMG, PwC, Boston Consulting Group, Andersen Consulting. By the wonderful Laleh Khalili in #LondonReviewOfBooks
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v44/n24/laleh-khalili/in-clover
#ManagementConsultants
#Corruption #Bribery #StateCapture