You’re right, it’s primarily about providing CYA insurance to dysfunctional management teams that need a third party to tell them what they already know and provide cover for an unpopular decision.

Or to blame failure on, last minute, for a project that is already nearing failure.

Who said anything about management consulting? I'm talking purely tech / "digital transformation".

That said, my opinion of management consulting is similarly low.

If you think tech / digital transformation consulting is all about the PowerPoint slides you’re missing the point.

I agree with you, but you have not offered anything solid to back this position.

When I worked in consulting, the vast majority of my work was with companies that didn't have the staff and/or expertise to solve a particular problem. Then again, I didn't work at a big-four -- but I would imagine that a team that 25% has experience in doing a particular thing is still better than a team that has zero experience doing it.

While people often criticize consulting companies for barely knowing what they're doing, the flip side of this is that the people at the company hiring them don't necessarily know what they're doing either :D There's a lot of people coasting along in corporate IT.

Enlighten us, then. Cause it sure seems that way to me.