"Doctor John" <doc### [at] gmailcom> wrote in message
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> http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2008/pulpit_20080516_004925.html
>
> On the principle that many of us seem to work as consultants, I thought
> Cringely's latest rant might be of interest

I suppose it depends on the type of consultant, the kind and quality of work
they do, and the value (if any) they add to the client. All too often, the
unfortunate truth is that the consultant does nothing and adds no value, and
charges a large amount of money for the service.

Especially at fault there (imho) are the large consulting companies -
Deloitte Consulting, Accenture, ...I've had the pleasure (and displeasure)
of working with Accenture before. They have a few good people, but mostly
they're trying to sell vastly overpriced serviecs to people that don't need
them.

It gives the good people in the inducstry a bad name.

As a contrast, the company that I'm joining later this year gets a large
portion of their money from crisis fixes. The paw-paw's hit the proverbial
fan, the client has no staff with the necessary skills to fix it, so they
call in outside experts.
A lot of the database consultants that I know or know of spend a lot of
their time doing database performance analysis, performance tuning or
security audits. All, I would argue, require specialised, rare skills that
most companies won't have on hand.

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