In the corporate world, some industries manage attention – and others manage decisions. Consulting belongs to the latter. Its influence is rarely visible on the surface, yet it quietly shapes nearly every major business process – from airline restructurings to government digital reforms. At YourNewsClub, we see it not merely as a service industry but as a global system of outsourced responsibility – where power and knowledge have become tradable assets.
Modern consulting was born from the principles of scientific management introduced by Frederick Taylor in the early 20th century and has since grown into a market worth over $250 billion. Analyst Owen Radner, who studies digital infrastructure as a new form of global transport, describes consulting as “an invisible management power grid – moving not goods, but decisions.” After World War II, as corporations and bureaucracies outgrew their own leadership, consultants offered a new kind of order: measurability, strategy, and the illusion of control.
Today, the industry is dominated by titans like McKinsey, BCG, Bain, and Deloitte, employing more than 1.4 million people worldwide. These firms don’t just sell solutions – they sell confidence, built on the promise of “global best practices.” Yet, data shows that up to 70% of large-scale corporate transformations fail to achieve their intended goals even under consultant supervision. As Jessica Larn of YourNewsClub notes, consulting often functions as a “ritual of managed justification” – companies bring in advisors not only for guidance, but for the permission to say: “We followed the experts.”
And still, demand continues to rise. In the age of AI, consultants have found a new mission – guiding firms through the integration of systems that may one day render their own roles obsolete. That paradox, we believe, is exactly what fuels the industry’s resilience: the greater the uncertainty, the higher the value of purchasable certainty.
Consulting has become a mirror of our broader economy – an economy of delegated responsibility. It thrives on the belief that complexity can be packaged, sold, and deployed like software. But unlike software, results aren’t guaranteed. We believe the future of the sector depends on its ability to prove tangible value – not through slides, but through measurable outcomes.
And as long as corporate leaders keep searching for answers outside their own walls, we at Your News Club observe consulting will remain what it has quietly become – the chief architect of order amid the chaos of strategy.