consultancies

The ownership of the code is irrelevant at this point and we just have independent consultancies (or integrators) providing expert-level services.

And don't get me started on the consultancies that support them (megabucks) or salespeople paid on commission (ultrabucks).

In my experience, the devil is in the details and the failures come during the implementation, and the management consultancies in the Marvin Bower tradition explicitly side-step implementation.

In practice, however, you end up paying a lot to get Drupal developers/consultancies to fix whatever mess you're left with.

Core leadership is made up of people from a bunch of different companies (including independent consultancies).

And even those who are, there's plenty of successful consultancies based around open source software.

Depends-- McKinsey and Accenture are considered strong consultancies known for their smart talent.

Once again: speaking as a consultant myself, and working in a field among many competing consultancies: Patrick's consulting experience is not at all atypical.

Seriously read the resources in the link below before buying into any of the re-urgitated hype that gets spread by these consultancies and journalists.

I used to rail against the H1-B program until I realized that the body-shop consultancies aren't hurting demand for my services.

People start consultancies and do much, much better than he did, or than I did.

It entered the firm I was then working via people coming from consultancies and wanting to make graphs only Thinkcell can build.

To clarify, by "invented here syndrome", I meant for the MS shops / MS consultancies.

Europe isn't the only place where this is an issue; Canadian companies have an issue with taking risks which is why you see a lot of marketing/ad "startups", consultancies and products/services geared towards the financial sector.

"The cost can be less than hiring outside consultancies." It's probably ten times cheaper when you consider the per mile cost to the airline.

Consultancies with employees throw off a lot of money on a yearly basis and also build value which can be sold.

Consultancies bill out fresh grads at rates considerably higher than that, and if there's any slack time at all between tasks then the elves are being billed out at less than $50/hour.