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As artificial intelligence threatens to render hourly billing obsolete, major consulting firms are grappling with a difficult transition to new client charging models. Deloitte has signaled that traditional labor-based consulting work will significantly shrink as a proportion of the overall market in the coming decade.
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Inside Consultants’ Messy Shift From Hourly Billing
As AI threatens to make the billable hour obsolete, professional-services firms wrestle with reinventing how they charge clients
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Mark Maurer
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!Illustration of a businessman sinking in an hourglass on a computer chip, symbolizing AI overhauling billable hours.
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Warnings about existential risks that AI poses to consulting firms are forcing a rethink of entrenched billing practices in the profession, but the transition to charging clients a new way is proving slow and difficult.
A Deloitte executive unveiled a chart at a town hall last month showing that traditional labor-based, hourly-rate consulting work is expected to shrink significantly as a proportion of the total market over the next decade.
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Inside Consultants’ Messy Shift From Hourly Billing
As AI threatens to make the billable hour obsolete, professional-services firms wrestle with reinventing how they charge clients
By
Mark Maurer
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!Illustration of a businessman sinking in an hourglass on a computer chip, symbolizing AI overhauling billable hours.
*Thomas R. Lechleiter/WSJ*
Warnings about existential risks that AI poses to consulting firms are forcing a rethink of entrenched billing practices in the profession, but the transition to charging clients a new way is proving slow and difficult.
A Deloitte executive unveiled a chart at a town hall last month showing that traditional labor-based, hourly-rate consulting work is expected to shrink significantly as a proportion of the total market over the next decade.
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