Is consulting dead?

This is a convo that's been thrown around a lot.

When you take the below into account, I’m not surprised:

If you use AI for any of these tasks, it’ll improve your efficiency by 40%:
> draft legal documents
> basic market research
> standard reporting
> create marketing strategies
> analyse financial data

Businesses are less reliant on traditional consultants like McKinsey and Deloitte, moving towards automated solutions and AI-driven analytics, with a 30% swing already taking place.


So…...

Can consultants still add value in a world dominated by AI?

If so, how and where?

My vote is still yes, and here’s why:

> I think there is a role for complex decision-making that AI can't replace. A mix of emotional reasoning, factual understanding, context, and nuance of the business challenge.

> Every business has a unique situation, culture, and needs. When you’re making decisions, you’re often taking that repository of learned and known context into your advice.

> You need someone to help narrow down the brief, interact with AI tools to get to the core of the insight, and take the juicy AI info and make something of it.

And lastly... I’m not ready to live in a world where I interact with computers and live in a dark room in the metaverse. I’m okay with messy, creative, emotional human interaction. Let’s let AI handle the low-value tasks, and we can focus on the more exciting, creative, and nuanced aspects of our work.