If the collapse of Enron and the alleged shredding of documents by consulting giant Arthur Andersen have shown us anything, it’s that both consultants and their clients can end up doing some extraordinarily unsavory deeds to protect their own interests.
Have you, as an IT consultant, ever been compelled by either your firm or your client to do something that was, at best, unethical, or at worst, illegal? What were you asked to do? Did the ends, in your mind, justify the means? How widespread are such incidents in the consulting industry and what, if anything, can be done to discourage questionable practices?
We’ve set up this discussion to determine how often our members have encountered such situations and how they dealt with them. We won’t ask for your name, or the identity of either your firm or your clients’.
Paul Baldwin
Editor, IT Consultant Republic
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