From big business to big government

摘要

Management consultants used to be people with MBAS and large egos who wanted to reinvent General Electric. But more and more of their work is for the public sector these days, and that is changing the nature of the business. Kennedy Information, an American firm that monitors the consulting industry, estimates that the public sector (including health care, which straddles both public and private sectors) now accounts for over 30% of the global consulting market. Kennedy forecasts that the business will grow by 6-9% for each of the next three years; private-sector business, it says, will grow by only 1-4% over the same period.