Pros
- excellent working culture, they care about employee personal circumstances and have zero tolerance for negative behaviour/bullying - entrepreneurial approach to work, it's easy to take ideas forward and tap into the vast network and capability pool available - honest and genuine approach with the client, we are value-driven in our work and adopt top notch business practices (apart from in the public sector, in which I believe most consulting firms tend to outstay their welcome by becoming critical to BAU rather than truly enabling the client)
Cons
- strategy is poorly defined. we know that we do 'transformation', but we have little clarity around exactly what we are selling to our clients and how we differentiate in the market. we have many different capabilities and service offerings, but the approach is 'sell whatever to whoever is paying'. this is happening because of how we are structured... - structure is very confusing and not conducive to effective delivery (even compared with other consultancies, we stand out as particularly bad). there are many different capabilities and elements within Invent, but we are very uncoordinated in the way we go to market. we have verticals and horizontals each owning the entirety of the consulting value chain, while the other business units in Capgemini Group each have their own P/L - this creates an environment which does not incentivise working together and ultimately confuses capabilities with go-to-market offerings. - we have a propensity to cruise. quality of work varies greatly across Invent. the whole 'people first' cultural approach sometimes goes too far, where we care more about people not being pushed at work than the quality of the work we are selling and delivering. this creates a situation where the most senior employees do the longest hours, which is the opposite to how most consultancies operate. as a young consultant hungry to learn and with the capacity to do more, I might be better somewhere else.
