Insight success The 30 Most Valuable Consulting Companies

Chalk Talk
The Criss-Crossing of
Artificial
Intelligence
&
Consulting
The diligent invention and innovation by research teams in companies around the world have
helped to keep-up with the pace of technological expansion in computer processing power for
several decades. This led to the ability of technology companies to put more computing
power than the whole Apollo space program into the bags of more than a billion people worldwide.
Everything around us including music, books and even movies have taken a digital physiognomy.
There is a considerable amount of threat to both people and their enterprises due to these increasingly
intelligent digital technologies and unpredictable customer expectations.
The last few decades have been an amazing time for consultancies with full of revenue and
opportunities provided by these technological advancements. Clients were desperate for solutions to
help them match these changing times. This has led to the growth of management consulting in size
and scale, expanding multiple technologies and even marketing specialties. The increase in the
divergence of the large international consultancies into other specialisms is the first step to what
fallouts in an inevitable shrinkage forced upon the industry.
The same forces that are causing a feeling of disequilibrium for the firms that consultancies serve are
also causing the same challenges, trepidation and uneasiness for the consulting firms. One of all the
major game-changers of the consulting industry is the inception of Artificial Intelligence.
Intervention of Artificial Intelligence
Mechanical muscles made human labor less in demand, so are mechanical minds making human brain
less in demand. You might misinterpret this as an economic revolution which is more appropriately a
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| February 2017 |