The Skills Consultants Need in the AI Era

In an exclusive interview with Business Insider, BCG’s North America Chair Meldon Wolfgang discusses how the firm’s talent model is evolving for the AI era. He explains that BCG is seeking the combination of technical proficiency and human judgment by accelerating the hiring of both technology specialists and business generalists. “The critical thinking that a consultant has always delivered is still in the bull’s-eye of what we need to train people to do,” Wolfgang notes.