Is there such a thing as tech-focused management consulting?

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Specifically, are there management consulting firms that work with startups and big tech firms? Or is that something one can specialize in at a big MC firm?

mbb_or_but_wait · Accepted Answer

AV&Co

jjwatson · Answer

Big MC firms (MBB, Big4, T2) work with big tech firms on a variety of topics from strategy to organization to pricing to operations.

Legacy tech companies (IBM, Cisco, Intel, Microsoft etc.) in semiconducter and enterprise software and are typically the biggest buyers of consulting services in "tech". More work here.

The large consumer-tech firms such as the Facebook, Google's, Amazon's of the world don't have a big culture or history of buying consulting services--they do a purchase but the work is typically less strategic in nature.

randomnumbers234238324353 · Answer

I don't want to dox myself, but my boutique consulting firm 200 works with a lot of startups, but in the life science space. Keep in mind, these life science firms are extremely well funded for their size.  We are talking 10M+ Series A. One of my clients had a 50M+ series A and like 10 employees.

Most big consulting firms won't touch these companies, because the juice is not worth the squeeze.

Int_Consultant · Answer

Non-MBB world: AV&Co. (lot telecom and media but starting to do more tech), Bulger which was recently acquired by Parthenon does a lot of enterprise tech, S& has a TMT practice that does a fair amount of tech work, Accenture Strategy, Arthur D. Little - lot of telecom, IoT and enterprise tech, CMA and Cartesian (almost entirely telecom). All of the above should have strong exit opps.

At MBB, you can specialize in TMT later on (EM or higher) but rarely tech specifically. At some boutiques, you may be able to specialize in tech but later on (Principal level).

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