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Getting to The “So What?” – The Most Important Question

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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. So remember. ” “So what?”

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Why Strategy is Simple and How Developing A Strategic Perspective Can Accelerate Your Career

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In consulting, I worked with many companies helping them to develop strategies. Although these were often focused on different levels of the business and different topics, all of the “strategies” were similar. How To Develop Your Own Strategic Perspective. Strategy Is Simple (Example: Pepsi).

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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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Exploring Consulting Frameworks: The Experience Curve

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It was developed in the 1960s by Boston Consulting Group (BCG), one of the biggest consulting companies in the world at the time. The Experience Curve relies on the underlying assumption that the more experience a business has in producing a particular product or rendering a service, the lower its cost.

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Why McKinsey Will Win In The Age of AI

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Big firms are set up to dominate even more… I think AI tools will help firms like McKinsey, BCG, and Bain (though Bain was much later to invest in knowledge management) develop a bigger lead in management consulting. I also think you’ll see a lot of wasted effort on solutions that clients may not care about.

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Eight common challenges of boutique consulting firms

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If training is something you can deprioritize, your firm will struggle with developing internal capabilities. Do you have a toolkit for business problem solving? The training was vital to the success of the firm, and everyone treated it as such.

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Consulting Pitfalls: How To Avoid “Book Report Thinking”

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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. So remember. Start from the top.