Director of Strategy | Chicago, IL | 31 oct. 2019
Valuable Brand - Terrible Management
The Strategy Advisory at KPMG has many talented individuals and a great reputation in the marketplace. Yet, it seems as if the firm is undergoing constant turmoil.
Re-organizations and strategic shifts are constant but they never achieve anything from a practical standpoint besides confusing the professionals. These always involve lots of complicated but meaningless frameworks, several hours of senior executives speaking jibberish and a shiny new object to distract from the underperformance/failure of the last big initiative.
The firm also seems to jump from scandal to scandal, which results in lots of new policies aimed at the professional staff, required trainings & compliance certifications and an endless torrent of e-mails.
Both of these "tendencies" ignore the real problem - poor management with no accountability. Until KPMG realizes and addresses this in a meaningful way, both work satisfaction and financial results will continue to decline.