Consulting - Pros / Cons - Interesting Read

• High-IQ, high-octane outsiders with specialist skills and new ideas - Sometimes you may have all pieces to solve the problem but could not be solved due to internal disputes
• Know less than they claim, cost more than they seem to - Perspective vs Competency vs Capability
• Consultants’ work is often opaque and feeds into broader processes - Working in long term to ensure it is aligned vs Consulting for short term

Mariana Mazzucato: ‘The McKinseys and the Deloittes have no expertise in the areas that they’re advising in’

My Experience :)

• Consulting - Good to learn, hard to get domain expertise
• Product - Good at domain expertise may end up on forecast/recommendation/vision / nlp but not all

Mixing career products and consulting will make you crazy. Learn and can't apply. Know and can't deep dive. Sometimes it's a tradeoff to focus on where we move deep vs shallow.

• Problems in production vs POV are different
• Perspective from customer vs Perspective from Sales 
• Tech vs Customer views differ. Short term consulting projects will not align in terms of strategy / challenges / incremental evolution opportunities

My Experiences

#consulting is #tech / #demo drive, #product is #domain driven. When you switch sides you learn the other side of domain/tech. 

• For #Vision work my #vision learnings helped
• For #Forecasting my #domain experience helped me
• For #Recommendations work my #SQL experience helped me

Both consulting + domain gives you a unique advantage. In some ways, past 3 years I am becoming more SaaS Dev + Product Manager :)

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