What I just don't get is why companies are so eager to spend weeks on explaining their business domain to a complete stranger (=consultant), who in exchange will charge them huge amounts of money either for a substrate of some outdated Gartner or McKinsey papers, or for pushing their own proprietary software solution, which doesn't even closely solve the technological problems the customer is facing.
I am talking about those guys who became consultants simply by printing their job title on a business card.
Why don't companies just instead give their own talented people some time and resources, and let them go figure out? Or as Wally would say: "Just because we pay inexperienced strangers to tell us how to do our jobs, that doesn't mean we're morons!"
