It's been puzzling to me for ages how some AI applications (e.g., natural language processing, image recognition, self-driving cars, ...) have progressed in strides over the past years, while MS Excel still asks me to specify the field delimiter when importing a CSV file. Seems a bit 80s. Only few BI applications seem to do better.

Agreed that consultancies have been the go-to insight providers for businesses over the past decade, but I see this changing as businesses get more data-savy and consultancies struggle to attract the tech skill needed to defend their top position (compared to skilled in-house teams).

Georg, ex-consultant