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How I’d Use AI Tools (If I Still Worked In Consulting)

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” Here is what it said Here are three ways someone might use a tool like Bard to help them work like a strategy consultant: Gathering and analyzing information. Bard can be used to quickly and efficiently gather information from a variety of sources, including news articles, research papers, and social media.

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Eight common challenges of boutique consulting firms

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People who were excellent at executing struggled to take a step back and be a thought partner with the client, helping design a longer more strategic approach to a problem. #7 7 No one is responsible for the process With almost everyone I’ve worked with, I ask them, “Who is responsible for obsessing over your internal process and performance?”

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Do Consulting Case Study Interviews Work? A deep dive

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At the highest level, most cases are similar: The interviewer presents background on a “client’s” business problem or scenario (e.g., But now, this information is far easier to find online, and the fact that you need to prepare is common knowledge – everyone knows that everyone knows you need to prepare.

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Issue Trees – What Are They and How Do You Use Them?

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You might develop the next leg of your tree: This tree is not perfect and the answers at the lowest level are not collectively exhaustive for all the possibilities for increasing revenue and decreasing costs. How Issue Trees Are Linked With Problem Solving. Do you have a toolkit for business problem solving?

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

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This is why consulting can feel more like therapy than business problem-solving. This is the value of a consultant, the ability to continue to search for the problem behind the problem. This usually requires really spending time with the client and people inside the organization in a formal and informal way.

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What are the career paths and titles at McKinsey, Bain, and Boston Consulting Group?

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As the scale and ambition of these firms increased, they needed more people to do the work and needed to develop internal pipelines of future partners. If you really wanted to jump from Business Analyst to Associate at McKinsey for example, that is definitely a possible path if you are a top performer.

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John Legend Made Slides? What Famous Alums Learned In Consulting

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Every business in the world has been grappling with this and therefore, as an advisor to those businesses, I’ve helped them think through that. My familiarity with boosting financial performance? ” It enabled him to develop a clear-thinking perspective to truly understand the very essence of a problem.”