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Booz Allen Hamilton is McDonalds.
We were a pioneer, but now our menu is a bloated mess. Our backers (partners at HQ) have some good ideas but the franchisees (partners in the geographies) hate them and our customers just want fast and cheap.
But we're still really good at fries; you can't beat our fries (Cyber), and trying new things to varying degrees of success (MENA GMC is our McCafe).
I will talk about the health account in the same breath as I talk about the Quarter Pounder with Cheese. It's still on the menu.
Let me preface this by saying I know very little about KPMG and their work other than the people seem happy, but KPGM seems cool.
I feel like they're like Dairy Queen, because I know very little about Dairy Queen and their food other than they have ice cream, but Dairy Queen seems cool.
McK: Chipotle. Well known. Filling. Expensive. From time to time causes indigestion and controversies.
Chipotle doesn’t really seem any more expensive than most other places. McK seems more like Five Guys: 40% more expensive than fast food but only 10% better.
Deloitte is DEFINITELY Wendy's.
We are still sh*tty fast food, but we really try to convince people that we are the least sh*tty, worth the extra money, and not the same as the other guys with their round frozen burgers. We say we are wholesome, care about families and all natural ingredients... But at the end of the day you're still eating mystery meat, it's just square.
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Accenture is Cheesecake Factory. We’ve got a giant menu but most of it neither particularly good nor bad. The only thing we truly excel at is Cheesecake (i.e. system implementations)
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Slalom: Taco Bell. Cheap, sloppy meals, that you end up regretting later on the toilet
And only thought of as a last resort when nothing else is available.
PwC is an airport Panera. We’ve gone so digital that we don’t have any cashiers helping customers figure out how to use the kiosks and the prices are even higher than a regular Panera
Definitely think Bain is Panera. Expensive for fast food - good quality and loved by the upper middle and upper classes.
PwC is closer to a Burger King
Moonlight Bunny Ranch...we will do anything for a dollar, may have to fake it along the way, doubt it’s the best you’ve ever had and you’ll feel regret when you’re done
Drop the mic. I don’t see how there could be a better answer.
Fujitsu Consulting is a hot dog cart under a bridge. Customers stumble across us, usually don’t get sick, but forget we are there next time they are hungry.
Dang when I said chain I didn't think EVERYONE thought that they were fast food
I just assumed all our clients want is cheap and don't care about quality.
So fast food fits
Strategy&: Sonic, wants to be one of the big boys but currently going through an identity crisis..
Outback Steakhouse: it has the presumed offering right there in the name, but if I really wanted a solid filet I’d go to Ruth’s Chris
A Ruth’s Chris sous-chef once told me the best way to determine the doneness of a steak was the thumb-pad method. Not sure what the parallel McK advice is for that...Seek competitive advantage via Porter’s forces analysis? Not really a good method and probably going to lead to suboptimal results?
EY is Hooters - we pride ourselves on having nice culture, having the best looking ladies. We serve food, but everyone knows thats not what the clients come for.
This aged great. Have you transitioned to IHOP or Waffle House now?
Bain: TGIFridays (self explanatory)
BCG: Starbucks (keeps raising its prices, experimenting with the menu, lots of customization, nerdy baristas and ppl with their face in a book)
McK: McD (ubiquitous and robotic in its precision and delivery)
PwC is Dunkin Donuts .... always kidding ourselves thinking we know more about coffee than Starbucks ( read any other consulting firm ) while we barely manage to sell fluffy donuts... oops I meant strategy
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EY is Domino’s. We do a few things okay and usually at a steep discount. The clients usually have a hangover after they’re done with us.
EY is Subway. Terrible processed meat also known as staff augmentation with a side of sexual scandals to top off your meal
Wut? We've had a fraction of what other firms have...
I thought infosys was that place you went while so intoxicated nothing mattered anymore. Not even the food poisoning it will give you
We call that place cookout around these parts
ATK is five guys. Both use way too much Garnet and are pretty expensive, but ultimately delicious.
We’ve also started giving away free peanuts.
I just left BAH. I think BAH is like a TMobile store. Cool first job, cool co-workers, young people....until you get a a horrible manager. Then you say "F**k this! I can do better!" and now I'm at Apple.
Yeah, Apple in the Job years, super successful but super stressful.