the near past of consulting
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The near past of consulting
How consulting will change drastically in the next five years
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We all know this statement...
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Let’s add one...
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The world’s most succesful consulting company…
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has no employees!
Instead: it consists of a network of freelancers sharing data and expertise
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When two interesting trends meet...
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magic happens!
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Trend # 1
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Freelancers take over
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Number of freelancers skyrockets
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and they work for half the costs (or less)
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What they lacked? (until now)
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1. Fire power (too small to fix big problems)
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2. Access to (substantial amounts of) data
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Which brings us to trend # 2
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Continious data
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What the present looks like:
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Client has a problem and calls a consultant...
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consultant assesses the situation (deskresearch) and
proposes a solution.
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What the near future looks like:
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Consultant has real time access to client data...
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When fluctuations in the data indicate a potential problem, the consultant takes immediate action.
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‘Continious consulting’ is born
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Back to the freelancers
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Each dot stands for a freelancer with access to a
small part of client data
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Each white dot stands for a freelancer sharing client
data with other freelancers*
*With consent of the client of course...
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