How AI threatens the giants of consulting

It all started with a chicken shop deal. When Mark Bunker read that the founders of a British fast food chain walked away with a small fortune after a private equity deal, he almost felt envious. “It can’t be that difficult,” he remembers.

But Bunker was a senior advisory partner at Deloitte, not a chef. Creating a new consulting firm that could compete with the large incumbents was widely considered impossible. When it came to advice, size mattered.

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