How AI is creating a rift at McKinsey, Bain, and BCG

“Why are you solving this problem from first principles? You should’ve used ChatGPT to help you.” A consultant at Boston Consulting Group (BCG), one of the “Big 3s” in the sector, recounted their manager’s reaction when they turned in a preliminary report on a certain topic a few months ago. “The funniest part is that I had used ChatGPT to solve the problem. I just hadn’t told my manager,” they said, not wanting to be named as they weren’t authorised to speak with the media. Welcome to management consulting in 2025, where much of what you see on a consultant’s deck has been outsourced to generative AI tools—including, funnily enough, the deck itself. You’d think firms would be wary of this new technology that threatens to make them obsolete. After all, AI has considerably narrowedInnoleadThe End of Consulting as We Know it: Client Power and the AI Revolution the knowledge gap between firms and clients, as one McKinsey consultant admitted. Instead, firms are enthusiastically adopting ... Read full article.