Consulting is Dead

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Consulting is Dead predicts that the role of big consultancy practices is disappearing. Because emerging technologies, new ways of thinking (such as biomimetics) and small world connected collaboration networks means that change management has become business as usual.

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It's time for business to change

Here's the new model - you only need a tight high performing team with a light external touch

Talk excessively

Decide immediately

Do use your own expertise

Change yourself first

Sense rather than measure

Keep talking

Change where you look for expertise

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And now it is possible to do it on demand

Transforming technology means that you can walk out of the room with the answer

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Innovation will drive growth

Getting in early, staying later and working harder will not work

It's a mind thing

It's you

Become exceptional

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And new technology means innovation is

instantRight now, in the room, know the answer

Cut the analysis

Ask people yourself

Crank up your own content contribution

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Simple principles

Focus on structure, information, time and space

Use few very capable people

Massive growth opportunity for staff

Crowd source everything

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Executives will need to be brilliant at decision

making

Your CV will list the decisions you took not the jobs you had

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Growth and profit moves from the big consulting teams into the client

Why would you work with big consultancy teams who’s objective is to grow consulting revenue?

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Innovation means a new way of working

Innovation is not something you do it is who you are and how you behave

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You can model how your decision will look before

you make the change

The 3d printer version of business design is now possible

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The ideas you have will be counterintuitive

It doesn't matter if you cannot explain it

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You can only explain them after they exist

Don't waste time trying to rationalise

Create response capability rather than fixed capability

What feels right?

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It's the age of self service, self repair and

self belief

Principles instead of rules

Autonomy

Authority to live

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Innovation is biological

Focus on structure, information, time and space

Recycle

Lever environment

Principles of a living thing

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Value will be driven by thinking

Blended diversity of thinking

Applications not theories

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Good enough is better than lean

Constant tuning

Flexibility

Getting it good enough

Move on and change

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Dead, dead, deadLong term analysis

Deep strategy reports

As-is

Detailed specifications

Business analysts

Technical architects

Consulting partners and the consulting triangle

Have one process

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So now you can really be alive

Because you are now living your own business life

Consultants will go back into the business

GDP will come from real things

It will be impossible to replicate

It will be easy to learn

It's now work anymore

It's living

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Thoughtcrew is bursting with content and relies on a small collaboration

network of talent to create joined-up thinking and insight

Dr Phil Richardson

Thoughtcrew Limited

[email protected]

www.thoughtcrew.net

@thoughtcrew Thoughtcrew offer:New customers, products and marketsFor large organisationsThrough new thinking, ways of working and the process of changeUsing a bio-enabled transformation technologySupported by a small world collaboration network

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