Is the menial paper work really that bad?
I saw some posts on here complaining about the amount of "paper work" that gets done in consulting. Is it really that bad or are people just not used to it. I figure its the same as you go up in any org.
Also, have there been any significant changes in the industry in the past 5 years? I couldn't really fine anything in my research.
Can you clarify what you mean? I'm not familiar with complaints about a lot of paperwork. I don't think most types of consulting has very much paperwork at all (insofar as you define paperwork as filling in forms and the like)
What does happen a lot is the analyses or pages you create don't end up being used in the final deliverables or are shelved in an appendix, but I wouldn't really think of that as paperwork as much as potentially wasted effort (depending on what was being worked on -- sometimes making all of those appendix pages is critical to getting to a good understanding of the situation even if they're not presented directly)
Banking was much worse than consulting in terms of process-oriented busy work.
What does never get better in consulting is the CYA via endless slide production.
CYA as in cover your ass?
Produce endless slides in case there's a direction you need to follow that wasn't planned for or to day I told you so if needed?
Yup. It's pretty frustrating/embarrassing when a client just had a bad internal politics meeting and then asks about topic X, and turns out you don't have any material (ie. a slide or two) on it. In consulting, if there isn't a slide on it, it's as if no work was done.
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