Kearney reviews

Long hours with little opportunity for personal life Training is very poor and or non-existent No matter how its marketed, the work is largely operations, supply chain, and manufacturing Sales and strategy practices are limited, poorly staffed, with few frameworks Political environment matters more than merit and hard work Intellectual capital/ie databases etc. to support practice needs tremendous improvement

Travel: Travel is non-stop, continuous, and burdensome on the soul. That said, all consultants travel all the time, but ATK is likely worse than some (Bain, BCG) and at par with others (Booz, Mck). A lot can be done to manage client expectations around this issue, and to optimize staffing for life as well as work. Processes: ATK is an 80 year old start-up. AFter the 2005 buyout, the firm started from scratch. So we are still building core processes. Examples: We have pretty mediocre intellectual capital develpoment, dissemination processes and tools, pretty crap financial management at the partnership level (a pareto of partner contribution would reveal a long tail, i suspect), and not the strongest people review processe (although its getting better).