In a recent interview with the Harvard Business Review, famed entrepreneur, and active Twitterphile Marc Andreessen said:

Once upon a time, there was AOL, which bundled everything from dialup to all the information services that you use, all in one thing. And then Yahoo came along and unbundled all the content from the access. And then one of the features of Yahoo was search, Google came along and unbundled search. One of the things you could do on Google was search for people; Facebook gave people a much better way to search for other people.

You can view the technology industry as this sort of family tree of sort of progressive unbundling. A lot of this traces all the way back to IBM. But even the giants of the last 10 or 20 years are in the process of getting unbundled. Microsoft has been significantly unbundled themselves in the last 10 years. Android has unbundled a significant part of what Apple’s done. And so, the process keeps playing out.

I have written before about the great unbundling now taking place in the consulting industry, and about how SkillBridge is on the forefront of this process. There are two categories that I place SkillBridge clients in:

1. Clients who have previously hired large consulting firms but have realized that it is utterly wasteful to bring in a full-service firm, pay partners fees, and subsidize the costs of maintaining fancy offices and first class flights for large consulting firms.

2. Clients who have been unable to afford consulting services of large consulting firms and frequently hire independent consultants, many of whom are not the perfect fit for the job.

At SkillBridge, these are the two problems that we seek to fix. For clients that hire consultants regularly, there is no need to hire a large firm for a one or two person project. For smaller firms, we make far more efficient matches by connecting you with the consultants who are the best possible fit for the job.

The great unbundling of consulting will continue, and, if nothing else, know that when you hire SkillBridge, you know that you are getting the best consultants for your job, at a fair market price, and at an on-demand (Uber!) speed that a large consulting firm would never, ever be able to compete with.