Anyone in the trenches who worked with people from McKinsey, BGC, Accenture and the like knows this. But you're being told to shut up about it by management...
... very rarely, though, they do fuck up. There was this epic time when they were tasked to improve development speed, and after four weeks, they brought a powerpoint presentation that talked about gamification and similar fluff words. Our top management decided to ask for a new consultant team and redo, as it was clearly not what they were told management wanted. Six weeks in, and yo and behold, the same presentation - with the same typos - was presented as the new result. Seems somewhere in India, some powerpoint specialist was slacking off.
Took the consultancy firm a lot of clout to prevent us from suing them for fraud.
... very rarely, though, they do fuck up. There was this epic time when they were tasked to improve development speed, and after four weeks, they brought a powerpoint presentation that talked about gamification and similar fluff words. Our top management decided to ask for a new consultant team and redo, as it was clearly not what they were told management wanted. Six weeks in, and yo and behold, the same presentation - with the same typos - was presented as the new result. Seems somewhere in India, some powerpoint specialist was slacking off.
Took the consultancy firm a lot of clout to prevent us from suing them for fraud.