Radical Meldrew

Suburbs

Common Sense Distributor

I genuinely believe that whilst most of IT managers are generally capable, they tend to be non-technical, so they see the use of external consultants to restructure the company to their perceived requirements as an absolute necessity. The consultants are not shy to capitalise on this management weakness and fully to take control of all the change in progress meetings and agendas on the basis that “None of this is new to us, we’ve done it successfully before”.

Strangely, when it happens, the company metamorphosis is nearly always achieved with minimal input from those who will be directly affected. This is not so strange when you realise that the consultants, who usually drive this stage through, already have a company ‘model’ in the bag (may even be the same one they prepared earlier for another client). This alone is why they focus mainly on selling the idea to management and gloss over anything or anybody that may necessitate changes to their pre-conceived plan. I’m sure this may sound very, very familiar to many of you from various companies (past and present) but I am generalising, honest!