StrategyU

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

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.

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StrategyU

APRIL 19, 2022

The Analyst and Associate Levels: Early-Career In Strategy Consulting. In the early days, top consulting firms were led by people who had careers in other industries and specific expertise. The tenure in role is most defined at the earliest points in the career path. This meant they needed to hire younger people and train them.

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StrategyU

JULY 5, 2020

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?

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StrategyU

JANUARY 27, 2021

These firms produce many impressive alumni because they tend to recruit and attract some of the most driven young people around the world, the work is oriented towards helping senior leaders of top companies, and the fact that there is an expectation that most people who work at these firms will not spend their entire careers at them.

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