[alistairSH]

Customer already pay management consultancies for software - certainly BAH does a bunch of that here in DC (some .gov, some private sector).

[alephnerd]

> management consultancies for software...

Management/Strategy Consulting is different from Implementation Consulting (eg. BAH building and operating a .gov site).

[alistairSH]

Sure, and Bain, like BAH, has a software consulting practice. Many of the big consultancies do.

[alephnerd]

My point is, if you are going to use terminology then use terminology correctly. The signal to noise ratio on HN is already bad enough as it is.

Implementation Consulting is always a separate practice under a seprate set of partners and leadership from Strategy Consulting.

Also, BAH doesn't really do Management Consulting anymore.

What Bain is doing is basically testing whether the valuation of acquisition targets actually makes sense or not, which is different from what you are talking about.