{"id":316422,"date":"2025-11-24T20:47:42","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T20:47:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/uncategorized\/navigating-ai-challenges-in-consulting-best-practices\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T20:47:42","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T20:47:42","slug":"navigating-ai-challenges-in-consulting-best-practices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=316422","title":{"rendered":"Navigating AI Challenges in Consulting: Best Practices"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Dear Madeleine,<\/em><\/p>\n

I lead a team that is responsible for content marketing for a consulting and research firm. After a lull the company started growing rapidly, and I now have a large cohort of bright recent grads. We hire graduates from top universities, and a gig with us is often seen as an ideal path to business school or other advanced degree programs.<\/em><\/p>\n

Part of this group\u2019s job includes conducting research for some of the consulting teams. All the younger people are very comfortable with using AI, and it is causing a real headache. At first I was thrilled with how fast they were working compared with some of my longer-term employees. I reviewed their decks, which were well built and cogent. But soon the complaints started trickling in and now they have grown into a raging river.<\/em><\/p>\n

It turns out that, unbeknownst to me, the new people use AI almost exclusively despite our very expensive subscriptions to multiple reputable research sites, and they can\u2019t tell truth from fiction. Some of the work they have submitted has conflicting facts. Although I didn\u2019t catch these, the consultants are experts in their fields and knew what to look for. I feel like a fool for not anticipating this problem\u2014but, more to the point, I am not sure what to do about it.<\/em><\/p>\n

Are other people dealing with this endless flow of garbage? How are companies handling this?<\/em><\/p>\n

AI Bah Humbug<\/em><\/p>\n

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Dear AI Bah Humbug,<\/p>\n

I had read about how schools are creatively addressing the problem of students using AI to write their papers, but I haven\u2019t heard of leaders in companies needing to tackle the issue. This doesn\u2019t mean you are alone.<\/p>\n

Everywhere I look, I hear about how AI is coming for our jobs. At Blanchard we take the threat\u2014and the opportunity\u2014very seriously. We have dealt with it at our company by adopting the stance that AI is a useful tool to augment<\/em>, not replace, what humans can bring to the table. I suspect other companies like yours, that can benefit from the use of AI, are doing what we are doing:<\/p>\n