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| comment | | "parent_author":"pbucquet",<br>"parent_permlink":"can-consulting-be-uber-ized-too",<br>"author":"oholiab",<br>"permlink":"re-pbucquet-can-consulting-be-uber-ized-too-20160610t120716359z",<br>"title":"",<br>"body":"The thing that makes transport uberizable is the fact that the product range is so narrowly defined - you've got like,<br> 4 different types of car available and suitable drivers can be narrowed down by proximity.\n\nWhen you're talking about consultancy,<br> you're talking about soft skills added to experience,<br> expertise in various areas,<br> all things that are incredibly subjective along a sliding scale. This isn't something you can just tap a couple of buttons in an app to get,<br> and quickly scales out to the original problem for the client - one of recruiting. \n\nUber also benefits from rapid feedback from the client - did the driver get you from A to B? Good. Problem solved. Consulting not so much,<br> you're asking about hard-to-quantify results over an indeterminate amount of time,<br> which is difficult to track in the interim. A consultant could easily argue that they performed well,<br> you just gave an inaccurate brief - a driver can't argue that they gave a good service when you end up in the wrong place.\n\nThe question then becomes which parts of that you can abstract out - and then you end up in the place of third-party recruiters which most people in tech can tell you are just a huge pain.",<br>"json_metadata":" \"tags\":[\"consulting\" " |
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