StrategyU

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Framework #2: The McKinsey 7-S Framework Aligns Your Organization for Success Imagine you’re trying to improve your company’s or team’s performance, but you’re not sure where to start. Developed by the Boston Consulting Group, this framework helps you visualize and balance your product portfolio.

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StrategyU

AUGUST 22, 2023

Do you have a toolkit for business problem solving? This course teaches you how to synthesize information into compelling insights, structure your information in ways that help you solve problems, and develop presentations that resonate at the C-Level.

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StrategyU

OCTOBER 6, 2024

All these places had leaders who said the right things and talked about building cultures of high performance, high standards, and excellence but the lived reality always fell short. In my experience, senior consulting leaders overlook the delicate connection between the business model, and specifically pricing, and high-performing behavior.

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StrategyU

JANUARY 27, 2021

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.”

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StrategyU

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

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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StrategyU

APRIL 19, 2022

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. Watch The Video On This.

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StrategyU

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

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. Do you have a toolkit for business problem solving? In consulting, things are always changing.

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StrategyU

MAY 29, 2024

At the highest level, most cases are similar: The interviewer presents background on a “client’s” business problem or scenario (e.g., I suspect the test was more of a general intelligence and reasoning test (which CAN be predictive of job performance). Do you have a toolkit for business problem solving?

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StrategyU

JUNE 12, 2021

However, if you spend the time to develop a process for approaching problems that are beyond the capacity of your normal intuitions you will be able to move on to more challenging problems. This is the secret sauce of any high-performing organization but can be hard to recognize if you were not there at the beginning.

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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. Part of the toolkit McKinsey developed was a 30-page document called the “General Survey Outline” (GSO) and it stood out for how it was different than Taylor’s “how-to” approach.

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StrategyU

OCTOBER 31, 2024

per year Example Project: A leading retail chain is struggling to adapt to the rise of e-commerce and wants to shift part of its business online. A strategy consulting team from McKinsey works with their C-suite to develop a digital transformation roadmap. Market size estimate : Allied Market Research estimates that this was is a $38.4

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