The Government-Business Consultants Trend: Is it a good thing?

There is an interesting article in the September 10th issue of the Economist Magazine, “From big business to big government.” This article discusses the similarities that large consultancies are finding between big business and big government.

By almost all accounts, the future of the US economy lies in small and medium-sized enterprises (SME). Large companies and large government agencies have been laying-off workers since the early part of the 1990s. SMEs are the real engines of economic growth in the US economy.

Large management consultancies would be well-advised to develop business practices that can survive on the reduced profit margins and lower overhead costs that SMEs can afford. There is a need to work with small service companies to help them increase automation and reduce their cost structures. There is a need to reduce the cost of doing business with them. This would improve their productivity and the country as a whole would benefit greatly from it.