Market conditions

By Fiona Czerniawska.

72%.

This is the proportion of the consulting market we think could be taken over by a new breed of intelligent machines. Put a different way, three quarters of the consulting industry could disappear over the next 10 years.

By Fiona Czerniawska.

85

This is the number of solutions McKinsey says it has developed, recognising the need for ‘new forms of expertise and insight’ and the fact that ‘the line between advisory and execution work has blurred’. We’ve also counted at least seven distinct sub-brands aimed at fostering cross-practice working and at promoting its new approach to the market.

By Zoë Stumpf.

7%.

This is our forecast for growth in the global management consulting industry in 2017.  To put this into context, this rate of growth would make 2017 as good a year as 2016, but not quite as good as 2015.