Elon DOGE and Secretary Hegeseth cutting Gartner and McKinsey Consulting.. Tagged Wasteful spending 😂😂. Consulting is wasteful now?

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Hegseth is going to reappropriate that savings for his booze money.

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Thanks. I’m here all day

This doge team is so clueless on how to run an organization. They see big numbers and cut them thinking they did a good job. Zero due diligence

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@M1, Rachel Riley is one of the core leaders and an ex-partner, and I believe there's one or two other alums there beyond the publicly reported ex-BA

I’m the furthest thing you’ll find from a DOGE supporter, but to be fair to them any money spent on Gartner really is just total waste.

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Ah, I just have the least amount of respect for Gartner and what they do 😂

Some examples though of why…

I used to be in Federal consulting and my client brought them in to present during an annual planning session… he literally fell asleep!

I’ve also worked with them as a client in an industry role and never once got anything actually helpful from them.

Finally, they have these magic quadrants that are essentially pay to play for the companies they’re “analyzing.”

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Seems like a wise decision to cut that spending.

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After they’re done fing things up and things need to be fixed, lots of consultants will be busy if we can make it that long.

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Seeing the comments, are we for waste or efficiency? I’m really trying to figure out given everyone in this comments are consultants who have been in one major efficiency or transformation project in the past. Looking forward to yall thoughts.

Have you worked in government? 70% of the people literally do nothing or do it at 1/3 the pace of a normal human because they typically feel no pressure. There is a small portion of government where the decisions can affect life or death. Everything else is no different than your consumer products example. Cut, see if it breaks, and then fix if necessary. The alternative is nothing happening.

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Well, that depends.

Do you have your four bullets of value you delivered this week?

Wait. Han it not been wasteful before? *gasp*

Not a DOGE supporter, but isn’t the end game to shift signed contracts from lower value add consulting engagements to higher value add ai contracts?

The money isn’t going back to Congress without rescission.

Or will they just carry forward and use the money next year?

I’ve been a consultant for 10 years. I can tell you any money spent on consulting is a waste.

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