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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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Do Consulting Case Study Interviews Work? A deep dive

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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. I suspect the test was more of a general intelligence and reasoning test (which CAN be predictive of job performance). Those case prep books I mentioned?

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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. Managing scope creep is an art and how much “creep” a consultant allows is really a matter of judgment.

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

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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. In this case, you likely would have to spend an additional six months or year in the BA role and it might come with the title “Senior Business Analyst.”

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John Legend Made Slides? What Famous Alums Learned In Consulting

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Indro Nooyi was the CEO of Pepsi and now works with the Yale School of Management as well as working with the state of Connecticut on the Covid-19 rollout. 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. That will come over.

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

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The history of strategy consulting starts with Frederick Taylor and the Scientific Management movement but took many twists and turns as it evolved into its current state, an industry looking inward and pondering where it fits in the new technology-powered business world. Chapter 1: Frederick Taylor: “The System Must Be First”.