ABSTRACT
Today much of this has changed. There is a different attitude to consultancy and specifically to IT consultancy. To begin with the image of consultants is much more positive than it has ever
been before and this is due to a number of reasons. In the first place there are many more IT consultancy organizations now, both big and small. These IT consultancy organizations came about because of the enormous need for advice and skills which was generated by several large waves of computerization over the past 20 years. Corporate requirements for IT have simply rocketed. These massive increases in demand for computers and skills resulted
from first, the Big Bang in the City of London in the mid-1980s; then the arrival of the Internet and the Web starting in the early 1990s following by Dot.Com mania leading up to the end of that decade. There has also been the Y2K issue, which offered great opportunities for business firms to shake out much of their legacy systems. All of these computerization initiatives created massive opportunities for IT consultancies, which were in a position to offer independent advice and provide the necessary skills to make systems work.
