Threats and opportunities are two standard bits of jargon in the world of management consultancy.
Development secretary Justine Greening's emergency audit of her department's spending could be a welcome effort to bring some transparency to the grey world of development consultancy.
"I have no doubt of Michael Gove's sincerity," says Hobby, a refugee from the world of education consultancy before taking on his new task at the relatively tender age of 38, "and yes – his belief that he's doing what's right to improve the education system.
Techniques like randomized control experiments and field studies, which were first developed in the hard sciences and then migrated into the social sciences, are now commonplace in the world of political consultancy.
When presented in the right way – "curated", if you will, by the city itself, with a sense of local character – such information can help to bring "place back into the digital world", says Mike Rawlinson of consultancy City ID, which is working with Bristol on such plans.
Today, that belief still remains unorthodox in too many places in the world of the political consultancy.
"Consulting on the Cusp of Disruption", by Clayton Christensen and two colleagues, is a penetrating article in the October Harvard Business Review, arguing that the comfortable world of the strategy consultancies is about to be turned upside down.McKinsey's success depends above all on an unimpeachable reputation for integrity.
It is headed by two "new kids on the block in the world of media and PR consultancy" but who boast of "lifetimes of experience at the top in national newspapers".
Smart graduates flood out of university with a choice – do a startup or (as is often the case often) get a high-flying job, such as in the world of finance or management consultancy.
If deployed in other parts of the world, business consultancy Pricewaterhouse Coopers (PwC) said it could depress the price of oil.
(You have to like their style: "Let's turn to a job seemingly far removed from the world of prostitution, that of management consultancy").
