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Management consultants are making a bundle in the AI boom (pivot-to-ai.com)

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[–] swlabr@awful.systems 14 points 1 month ago

Anything that disproportionately benefits management or management consultants should be shunned and banned from society.

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago

If you’ve ever read a Gartner or McKinsey report, you might think management consulting was the precise use case for a BS machine given to fabrication. Several startups pitched replacing consulting tasks with AI last year. Then the big consulting companies bought them. [Sifted, 2023]

Boston Consulting Group estimates 20% of their 2024 revenue will come from from AI. IBM has $1 billion in sales commitments for AI consulting and its Watsonx chatbot platform. Accenture did $300 million in AI-related sales in 2023. McKinsey says 40% of its 2024 business will be in AI. [NYT*, *archive]

Well okay then

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 9 points 1 month ago

Bullshit merchants enjoy bullshit machines.