give work to Lawyers" and "what are Management Consultants?". Since he's been in the chair the share price has been divided by 4. In my experience management consultants bring nothing and take out a lot. They don't do anything that the existing managers should not be able to do already. Ah yes. Managers. In my experience most are more concerned with maximising their importance, budget and headcount than moving their companies forward. I worked for a large management consultancy at a client that is a very well known company. They had a payments team of around 200, 80 of whom set up new direct debits and another 80 corrected the mistakes the first 80 made. The whole process needed no more than 60-70 people to be done properly. But the "manager" of that team had no interest in sorting that out as his status was dependent on a high headcount. Unsurprisingly he was one of the first out the door. I actually went to work for that company later managing technology strategy and one of my projects involved finding a less manually intensive way of processing payments from small suppliers who couldn't support EDI. The internet was well established then and the obvious and cheap solution was to implement a simple package that would allow them to invoice and receive payment electronically from anyone with a computer, modem, telephone line and browser. However, it was made clear that sending invoices electronically was not in scope as that was a different