An interesting read about how a US management consulting firm was brought in by the German government to help speed up their struggling asylum system and the repercussions thereof. Essentially speeding up the decision making system to reduce the huge backlog of applications but resulting in a significant increase in mistakes being made and a vast number of appeals now clogging up the courts.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world...=.758ed19deea5
They may understand how to make efficiencies but do they understand the legal systems or do they even care? Sound familiar?
I reckon politicians put rather to much faith in 'consultants' than they should but of course they rather like being able to take any credit going whilst having the option of blaming the consultants when it all goes wrong. The consultants carry on talking the talk, picking up their millions and saying what their paymasters want to hear...