The Algorithm vs. Accenture
Revenue
$64.9B
Employees
733,000
Stock down 32%. $60B in value destroyed. The Economist asked if anyone needs them anymore.
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The Algorithm vs. Deloitte
Revenue
$65B
Employees
457,000
$170M lawsuit over an ERP that couldn't ship products. Medicaid errors across 20 states for a decade.
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The Algorithm vs. Cognizant
Revenue
$19.7B
Employees
347,700
TriZetto breach undetected for 12 months. Helpdesk handed hackers network passwords.
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The Algorithm vs. Infosys / HCL / Wipro
Revenue
$18.6B / $13.3B / $10.5B
Employees
317,000 / 227,000 / 234,000
Staff augmentation at scale. Generalist engineers. Compliance as a consulting layer.
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The Algorithm vs. Building In-House
Hiring takes months. Scaling takes years. Key person risk is existential.
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The Algorithm vs. IBM Consulting
Revenue
$17.8B
Employees
160,000
Watson Health shut down after $4B+ investment — sold for parts to Francisco Partners
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The Algorithm vs. Tata Consultancy Services
Revenue
$29B
Employees
601,000
Staff augmentation model at scale — body-shopping dressed as transformation
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The Algorithm vs. Capgemini
Revenue
$22.1B
Employees
340,000
iGate acquisition (2015) and Altran acquisition (2020) created chronic integration chaos — disparate cultures, overlapping offerings, unresolved quality standards
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The Algorithm vs. KPMG
Revenue
$36B
Employees
273,000
Carillion collapse (2018): KPMG audited Carillion for 19 years before its £7B liability implosion — FRC investigation, £14.4M fine
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The Algorithm vs. EY (Ernst & Young)
Revenue
$49.4B
Employees
395,000
Project Everest split attempt (2023): $600M spent on a breakup that was abandoned — internal chaos, key partner departures, client uncertainty
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The Algorithm vs. PwC Technology Advisory
Revenue
$53.4B
Employees
364,000
PwC Australia government scandal (2023): partner leaked confidential Treasury tax policy to advise corporate clients — government banned from federal contracts, forced to sell government practice for $1
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The Algorithm vs. Booz Allen Hamilton
Revenue
$10.7B
Employees
33,700
Edward Snowden was a Booz Allen contractor — the most consequential intelligence leak in US history occurred on their watch
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The Algorithm vs. DXC Technology
Revenue
$13.2B
Employees
130,000
Spun off from HPE/CSC merger (2017) — has lost more than half its market value since inception, never achieved the promised integration
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The Algorithm vs. NTT Data
Revenue
$20B
Employees
190,000
Commodity offshore delivery model — competes on price, not capability or compliance depth
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The Algorithm vs. CGI Group
Revenue
$14.3B
Employees
90,000
UK NHS National Programme for IT: CGI (as Logica, then post-acquisition) involved in the £12.7B NHS IT programme that was scrapped in 2011 after a decade of failure — the largest abandoned public IT programme in history
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The Algorithm vs. Leidos
Revenue
$15.4B
Employees
47,000
Revenue is ~97% US federal government — almost no commercial regulated-industry presence
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The Algorithm vs. Gartner
Revenue
$6.4B
Employees
20,000
Research firm operating a consulting practice — no engineering capability, no delivery infrastructure, no compliance architecture depth
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