The near past of consulting. How consulting will change drastically in the next five years. Two trends combined (growth in freelancers and access to continious data) shift the landscape of consulting.

1. The near past of consulting
How consulting will change drastically in the next
five years

2. We all know this
statement...

3. Let’s add one...

4. The world’s most succesful
consulting company…

5. has no employees!
Instead: it consists of a network of freelancers
sharing data and expertise

6. When two interesting
trends meet...

7. magic happens!

8. Trend # 1

9. Freelancers take over

10. Number of freelancers
skyrockets

11. and they work for half the
costs (or less)

12. What they lacked? (until now)

13. 1. Fire power (too small to
fix big problems)

14. 2. Access to (substantial
amounts of) data

15. Which brings us to trend # 2

16. Continious data

17. What the present looks like:

18. Client has a problem and
calls a consultant...

19. consultant assesses the
situation (deskresearch) and
proposes a solution.

20. What the near future looks
like:

21. Consultant has real time
access to client data...

22. When fluctuations in the
data indicate a potential
problem, the consultant
takes immediate action.

23. ‘Continious consulting’ is
born

24. Back to the freelancers

25. Each dot stands for a
freelancer with access to a
small part of client data

26. Each white dot stands for a
freelancer sharing client
data with other freelancers*
*With consent of the client of course...

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connecting the dots?

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