Without Design Thinking, enterprises are really just retrofitting expensive solutions into legacy processes and likely wasting a whole load of time, resources and money. It all starts with Design Thinking.
Can we really progress in this era of denial and bullshit? Of course not.... we will see a few bold moves to get ahead of this market, and some may well come from this potential marriage of big consulting and big BPO.
Operations are becoming standardized, cloudified and robotized - and if we can't reorient our staff to accept this reality and expand their capability horizons, many will be waiting tables, driving ubers or cutting hair before we know it.