Qantas was good consultant fodder. They had legacy systems that already worked that could easily be changed, they had a well defined organisation structure that could easily be chopped up and reassembled, they had a staff culture of commitment and hard work that could easily be exploited to take up or smooth out any anomalies with the new Qantas procedures and processes.
It is change for change sake, unfortunately the lack of talent at the top that is driving the change doesn't know much about running an airline and has got everyone jumping through more hoops than is necessary with no end in sight.
But that means diddly squat to AJ and his board because the end game to them is to sell off the best bits of the Qantas carcass to their mates at a bargain basement price. And so far this appears to be the only progress AJ and his board have made by letting their consultants run amok creating more dysfunction, confusion and uncertainty in the Qantas business to achieve this goal.