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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.

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

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While Taylor came from a family of some means, college was not the first stop in his career. Other professional services decided to get in the fun too with IBM, Deloitte and Arthur Anderson all having strategy consulting offerings by the mid 90s. Do you have a toolkit for business problem solving?