Mungo Soggot
THE R6-million fee United States consultants McKinsey charged the SABC for restructuring the broadcaster suggests Auckland Park had itself McKinsified at a snip.
The British Broadcasting Corporation paid the American company several million pounds a year and up to 6-million in the 12 months leading to last year’s announcement of its major shake-up.
No one in the BBC’s top management was consulted in advance, or even informed until the last minute, about the organisation’s restructuring before McKinsey came out with its recommendations. Job losses were extensive.
A spokesman from McKinsey’s Johannesburg office said the leaders of the team which went through the SABC all had experience working with public broadcasters.
The London Sunday Telegraph wrote that the firm recruits people who are analytical, hardworking, confident and socially skilled as well as having high academic qualifications.
”Even if they are not smooth operators when they arrive, they are likely to be by the time they leave,” one former consultant told the newspaper.