Comment by ID1452319

Lots of people with anecdotes of how useless/disastrous big consultancies are.

It's the old "nobody ever get fired for buying IBM". It is easy to justify this kind of outsourcing decision, these are multi-billion dollar companies and they must be that successful for a reason. Right? Whereas if you do something in house and it goes titsup, then the first question will be "why didn't you get an experienced consultancy to do it?"

So my question is how do we influence senior management away from the mentality of employing consultants as they default decision and instead look at all the options fairly.