Since the expansion of the IT industry in the 1990s to 2000s, technology consulting has rapidly expanded to become a critical part of this transformation. While the traditional technology sector produces products and infrastructure for organizations, technology consulting plays an important role in implementing these technologies into the strategies and operations of organizations.
Technology consulting
Technology consulting is among the most broad forms of consulting. It includes both consulting focused on the technologies themselves agnostic to industry (technology horizontals) and you also have technology consulting focused on industry specific solutions (industry verticals).
Consulting horizontals
You can think of horizontals as advising on specific technologies irrespective of industry. Think of for instance, Salesforce, Oracle, and other big technology solution providers. Experts in these technologies consult organizations on how to implement them. These technologies can be applied in numerous ways, including for example, in healthcare, human resources, or a banking context.
Consulting verticals
For vertical industries, technology consultants focus on adapting solutions to the needs of particular industries. Here you have technology consultants focused on sectors like healthcare, banking, and so forth. They work across multiple technologies to implement them specifically for the needs of their given sectors.
Technology consulting firms
Big name companies like Capgemini, Accenture, among many others are involved with technology consulting. Candidates for these companies often need a strong mix of both problem solving as well as technical skills to land roles. Often, certifications in key technologies improves a candidates chances of getting a job. These could be from Microsoft, Amazon, and many other big tech companies for instance. Technology consulting often has a large amount of overlap with the technology industry as a whole. Many candidates shift between consulting and tech roles in industry. Often a role in technology consulting serves as a great springboard into big tech roles.
In the end, technology consulting is one of the most rapidly changing fields of consulting. This is due to the nature of the technology industry which is highly competitive and always innovating. Every few years there is a rapid shift in the market, from the move to cloud, AI, and blockchain only to name a few. Technology consulting remains by far one of the largest consulting fields in the space.
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