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The Ultimate Guide To “Scoping”: How Consultants Define Problems and Shape 

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Most knowledge professionals deal with problems that are ambiguous and part of their job is to identify the core issues. Here are a few useful things I learned about scoping in my consulting career : Find the problem behind the problem The first step of the consulting process is to define the problem. Be detailed.

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A Brief History of Strategy Consulting: 100 years from Frederick Taylor to the “Next New Normal”

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So in the last 1800s, Frederick Taylor and several others in the US started exploring new ways to think about running a business. While Taylor came from a family of some means, college was not the first stop in his career. Do you have a toolkit for business problem solving?