Any thoughts on BCG's Technology Advantage program?
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How much better did your WLB get after leaving consulting? I’m moving to an internal strategy role at a client. Financial Services - Banking. In consulting - standard day was closing my laptop between 9pm - 10pm and eating dinner at my desk. I’m expecting industry to be better, but not that much. Maybe closing my laptop between 6pm - 7pm? I haven’t been able to ask anyone in the bank what it’s like, as this is a new team. I’m benchmarking on other client strategy offices.
It’s growing rapidly and a sizable chunk of our business
I think they’re pretty great. Have worked alongside them and managed dedicated TA teams in the context of larger transformations
Thanks 🙏 . Are the Tech Advantage teams fully integrated with the strategy teams? Wondering if there's a significant segregation between the strategy and tech folks
There are many models. It is practice area just like consumer, healthcare, corp dev, or ops. Lots of opportunity for cross-staffing and team integration. That said, TA has a higher mix of Expert Career Track folks (still consulting with same titles but generally not partner track / sales expectations) and more laterals with specialized skills. I’ve worked with TA folks as SMEs billing 10% to the project, as consultants running a single tech workstream, and as a stand-alone team in the context of a broader effort (eg TA Partner, PL + 2 as one of several transformation teams). They also do TA-only projects
They’re different practice areas so in some ways yes but we do a lot of digital transformation which involves both