Dan Hon’s newsletter (which is excellent) had a great anecdote last week about the New York City Sanitation Department hiring McKinsey to study and design a procurement for trash containerization. Which is exciting (urbanplanning!) but also, as Dan says, alarming: This kicked off my usual consultant-consulting-on-RFP threat-response mechanism, this time focussing on: under what circumstances and in what environment is an external consultant needed to design that organization’s RFP for the...
