In 2015, digital remained the largest consulting service line. Recruitment of digital consultants across MCA member firms has rocketed. There are now around 12,000 digital consultants out of around 45,000 employees.
As our highly successful MCA Year of Digital has shown, consultants are active right across the digital value chain, from Big Data analytics, social media, Cloud, gamification, through to cyber security and even AI. This breadth of activity has two principal benefits.
The first is for clients. The MCA surveyed business leaders about digital. We discovered that while the topic is extremely important to them, they don’t necessarily have a detailed understanding of what it means. Consultants are steeped in digital culture. Some consulting firms have technology backgrounds. Many are recruiting digital experts to ensure that they have the most topical insights at their disposal. But as consultants, they also know that what matters to businesses is how digital will impact their strategy, recruitment needs, their investments, and most importantly their profitability.
Consultants can link cutting-edge digital insights to the business bottom line in ways business leaders can understand and relate to. They are helping digitise areas such as retail, where consumer expectations are driving huge channel shifts. They are transforming financial services (again increasingly in customer-facing areas, like retail banking) and in infrastructure, energy and utilities and manufacturing, they are linking data analytics to systems and products. Applying the concept of the ‘internet of things’, they are helping personalise the transport system, automate domestic heating systems and pioneer networked and (eventually) driver-less cars. The second benefit is for consultants. The rise of digital makes this a uniquely exciting time to work in the industry. Unlike many specialist digital boutiques, consultants get an opportunity to play with all the digital toys. At a recent Young MCA Year of Digital event, over 90% of young consultants said that digital made consulting a more attractive profession.
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Source(s): Taken from original post in our blog post back in November 2018. ''Why consulting jobs are on the rise''.