Consultants Like McKinsey Deliver 'Overcomplicated' AI, Insider Says
adropboxspace · x · 2026-07-22
An AI practitioner has heavily criticized large consulting firms like McKinsey and Accenture for their enterprise AI implementations.
Having worked with over 25 companies that used such services in the last three years, the author observed that these firms consistently deliver overly complicated, incomprehensible solutions. These are often accompanied by mountains of slides filled with unnecessary jargon like 'knowledge graph ontology.' The author argues that the ultimate solution is always to strip away this complexity.
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