Daniel Ziffer

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2,266 appearances 25 recordings 3 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 9 Sep

Daniel Ziffer’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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7am · Big money, client secrets, and a silenced whistleblower: Inside the KPMG scandal · 29 Jun 2026 podcast

And so they essentially get these people in as contractors.

They pay the contracting company, they clip the ticket, and then your good ethical white hat hacker goes and works for our code breakers.

But if you just employed that person as a public servant, you wouldn't be able to pay them anywhere near what the market rate is for that highly specific skill.

Government could take a choice to bolster the public service.

I think this government has to try and retain some of that knowledge and keep some of that kind of corporate memory and allow them to grow.

But one of the reasons that the consulting firms, the big four, have grown like topsy in the past decade or so is they've just been given a huge amount of work that used to be done by other people, mainly public servants.

Well, I've had an immense conflict here because I am a public servant.

I work for a modestly funded broadcaster.

I've heard of it.

It's got three letters.

It starts with A. So there has been a degradation of the public service where a lot of that corporate men.

A lot of those elder, well-paid people have just not been kept around.

They haven't recruited.

They haven't been able to compete on the market for talent.

And as a result, there's been gaps.

Business is the same.

I mean, consulting firms actually face not quite an existential threat, but a really serious one from AI.

Because one of the things that consulting firms are best at and credit all their money from is answering business problems.

Well, man, I've got four different AI models that I can pump my problems into and get some solutions.

So they do have an issue into the future where can they charge as much for the knowledge that they have and the advice they can give?

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