The future of consulting: Fewer staff, but same deliverables
Delivering a project with less than a quarter of the people – if you use AI agents. Plus: Hackers expose McKinsey’s IT flaws and a new tax leaks fine for PwC.
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The future of consulting may involve fewer consultants doing more work with artificial intelligence – PwC promises this will mean “sustainable work hours”. Also this week, I question how wise it is for firms to sell software that demonstrates their work can be automated and reveal a previously unpublished PwC tax leaks fine. Plus, one chartered accountant explains why the trainee number crunchers of today need to toughen up.
