Consulting Reinvents Itself Every Generation: 1997 vs 2025 
1997 v 2025 The consulting industry has always lived in cycles. In 1997, ERP and…
Ben AppletonOctober 2, 2025
McKinsey’s Alumni Flywheel and the Future CEO Pipeline 
McKinsey’s alumni flywheel powers one of the strongest CEO pipelines in global business. But AI…
Ben AppletonSeptember 29, 2025
AI Isn’t Destroying Consulting or Saving It. It’s Reshaping It. 
Consulting isn’t disappearing. AI is transforming the pyramid into the 'new model' – leaner, faster,…
Ben AppletonSeptember 25, 2025
PwC’s Results Show the Consulting Model Is Shifting 
PwC UK’s 2025 results highlight a sector under pressure but also adapting. Profitability has been…
Ben AppletonSeptember 23, 2025
AI won’t replace consulting. It will redefine it. 
AI is reshaping strategy consulting in Europe – firms that treat it as existential and…
Ben AppletonSeptember 16, 2025
The depth of the bench decides the future 
McKinsey’s decision to increase entry-level hiring in North America by 12% for 2026 shows that…
Ben AppletonSeptember 10, 2025
Consulting’s fastest growth lever: the Team Move 
Move a team, and you change a firm’s market position overnight. Solo partner hires add…
Ben AppletonSeptember 9, 2025
Consulting Rankings 2025: What the AI Category Really Signals 
the addition of AI to Forbes’ consulting rankings is more than a category change; it’s…
Ben AppletonSeptember 2, 2025
Can AI really be trained to think like a consultant? 
AI copies the methods, not the value FAZ recently tested the idea with “Meckie,” an…
Ben AppletonAugust 28, 2025
McKinsey at 100: Still Leading or Losing Ground? 
In 1940, McKinsey declared: “Business has been forced to adjust itself to staggering acceleration in…
Ben AppletonAugust 11, 2025
Consulting’s New Playbook: Partner To Build, Don’t Just Advise 
What’s happening? Accenture has made one thing clear: AI isn’t a tech trend to adopt,…
Ben AppletonAugust 7, 2025
Do consultants make good CEOs? 
What 15 Years of Market Data Reveals About Strategy Talent in the C-Suite The short…
Ben AppletonAugust 7, 2025
AI Is Reshaping Consulting 
Live forever? Not on yesterday’s model. McKinsey & Company is rebuilding its own playbook –…
Ben AppletonAugust 5, 2025
McKinsey’s China AI Ban: How the Game Is Really Played 
Intro This week, The Financial Times reported that McKinsey & Company has barred its China…
Ben AppletonJuly 23, 2025
McKinsey’s move reflects a bigger truth about partnerships 
What McKinsey’s quiet election overhaul really signals McKinsey & Company has quietly rewritten the rules…
Ben AppletonJuly 22, 2025
