StrategyU

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

“Strategy” is a word that attracts a lot of excitement in the business world. People who work on strategy get paid more and senior executives like to use the word a lot to talk about their decisions. In consulting, I worked with many companies helping them to develop strategies.

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StrategyU

OCTOBER 2, 2023

The same pattern can apply to a knowledge professional and a manager. Do you have a toolkit for business problem solving? I created Think Like a Strategy Consultant as an online course to make the tools of strategy consultants accessible to driven professionals, executives, and consultants.

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StrategyU

MARCH 10, 2024

The mystique of strategy consulting has inspired films such as Office Space and Up In the Air and TV shows like House of Lies. While I generally agree with many of the criticisms of strategy consulting, I am more interested in demystifying what consultants do and how you can learn the same skills without having to work in the industry.

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StrategyU

MARCH 31, 2022

It was developed in the 1960s by Boston Consulting Group (BCG), one of the biggest consulting companies in the world at the time. Here is an excerpt from Lords of Strategy about how BCG helped to repackage this thinking: BCG devised the curve in 1966. They pointed out two things about the problems with experience curves.

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StrategyU

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

McKinsey was one of the first firms to invest heavily in “knowledge management” in the early 2000s. Before going under the fancier sounding “knowledge,” most consulting firms had libraries with physical books and resources that were managed by professionals with a background in library science. It was really good.

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StrategyU

JULY 23, 2021

Managing this delicate balance is vital to ensure you lay the groundwork to building a lasting freelance business. A common strategy is to start with a brand and then shift to working under your name later. In my case, I started freelancing under the name “Vivo Strategies.”

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StrategyU

AUGUST 22, 2023

To demonstrate this, I asked Bard , googles AI chat tool, the following question: “What are three ways someone might use a tool like Bard that would help them work like a strategy consultant?” This information can then be analyzed to identify trends, patterns, and insights that would be helpful to a strategy consultant.

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