When consultants actually say what they think

A friend working at an unnamed company told me about the (widely unloved) CEO bringing in yet another IT consultant, probably on a search and destroy mission to get more control over their tech people. He hired them to come in while the CIO was away on vacation. Nice.

Here is what they had to say:

The web site is fine, technically and architecturally. Your IT guys are quite competent -- save you a great deal of money -- and are 'probably more competent than you deserve.'

The good guys (and gals) should win more often.