The trope about external consultants is that your VP brings them in to review the company, and they talk to everybody and write a report on how to improve the business, and the report says exactly what you've been telling your VP but they've been ignoring you.

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2fff an hour ago | parent [-]

You are closer to the truth :)

they are not simply paid to do nothing. They are paid to do dirty work.

	▲	mapontosevenths 16 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		They are paid to justify decisions executives have already made. It's often referred to as due diligence, but in practice these reports mostly just allow executives to tell the board it wasn't their fault if it goes wrong.