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When Lawyers Get Lazy: PwC’s Data Act Hiccup

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Sometimes satire writes itself. The European Union’s Data Act, a landmark piece of legislation on data access and portability, is Regulation (EU) 2023/2854, which has been adopted on 13 December 2023, published in the Official Journal of the EU on 22 December 2023 and fully applicable since 12 September 2025. That number 2023/2854 matters. It tells compliance officers which obligations to...

Dear Consultants, AI Ate Your Pyramid

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Dear Management Consultants, We need an intervention. It’s about your future, or what’s left of it after the invoice templates stop printing themselves. You’ve had a lovely run at the top of the corporate terrarium: tailored suits, status lounges, and fees that soar on the thermals of “we have the best people, trust us.” Charming. Unfortunately a new colleague just walked in, knows everything...

Business consulting – or the easy way to make some extra cash

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The management consultants at McKinsey have once again used all their cognitive resources to identify a worthwhile target for a (‘scientific’) study, and then eloquently and confidently set out to achieve it. OK – that may sound a little pejorative. Perhaps we should put it like this: They kicked down another barn door that was already wide open and discovered that AI’s...

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