At Boston Consulting Group, consultants of the future might look a lot like those of the past: generalists with business acumen.
The difference, said BCG veteran Mel Wolfgang, is that the firm increasingly sees its consultants developing some of the technical capabilities once concentrated among specialists in areas such as IT architecture and software development.
Wolfgang got a better sense of that shift when he took over as North America chair in May. He asked how many of BCG’s traditional consulting staff had skill sets similar to those of its technical employees.
What Wolfgang found surprised him.
“I’ve actually kind of got double the…
