StrategyU

MARCH 31, 2022

Here is an excerpt from Lords of Strategy about how BCG helped to repackage this thinking: BCG devised the curve in 1966. A client, General Instruments, was having trouble matching competitors’ prices in its television-components business. Do you have a toolkit for business problem solving? Wishful Thinking?

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StrategyU

JULY 23, 2021

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.” At this point, I still use the Vivo Strategies for legal documents but rarely use it with anything else. Do you have a toolkit for business problem solving?

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StrategyU

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

I started StrategyU with the intention of teaching knowledge workers the tools, frameworks, mindsets, and approaches that I learned in strategy consulting. When I started this, I thought that my audience would be people in big companies stuck inside strategy, finance, or analytics groups that didn’t have access to training.

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StrategyU

NOVEMBER 28, 2020

In my several years in strategy consulting, I learned about the many ways data, information and charts could be used to fit with an existing storyline. This builds on the last charge and adds the “missing” information of the percentage of men who are Fortune 500 CEOs. Beware of misinformation.

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StrategyU

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Over and over again in my coaching work, I am surprised at how little time is spent on actually processing information and thinking about how other people might interpret certain information. It’s a nudge to go beyond sharing a bunch of information and thinking about what you are really trying to say.

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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. This usually requires really spending time with the client and people inside the organization in a formal and informal way.

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StrategyU

JULY 7, 2021

Using a template like follows and coming up with the high-level issues and areas within the business you are focusing on can be clarifying. You can also add specific types of analyses and information that you use to help you solve or improve in these areas: This can also be rolled out across your org chart. Learn more here.

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StrategyU

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Instead, you need to develop a better process for synthesizing and structuring information. This is even more important in the digital age where you don’t actually have to go to a different space like a library to find information. The lowest level is made up of individual pieces of information. Barbara Minto.

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StrategyU

JULY 5, 2020

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. one that would focus on business strategy.

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StrategyU

JUNE 28, 2022

In 1976 the founder of Boston Consulting Group, Bruce Henderson published a strategy memo with a bold claim : “ a stable competitive market never has more than three significant competitors, the largest of which has no more than four times the market share of the smallest.”. Do you have a toolkit for business problem solving?

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StrategyU

JANUARY 27, 2021

She gives credit to her time in consulting for being able to become a CEO: “I don’t think I could have gotten here without a strategy consultant background because it taught me inductive thinking. Do you have a toolkit for business problem solving?

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StrategyU

APRIL 19, 2022

The Analyst and Associate Levels: Early-Career In Strategy Consulting. Strategy Consulting Firms Hire Entry-Level Consultants, But Typically Less Than Grad School Hires. One weird thing about the strategy consulting industry is that many people join the industry with an intention to leave.

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StrategyU

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

In 2012, I was first exposed to the world of freelance strategy consultants while working for a-connect. I wanted something that signaled a firm and also allowed me some flexibility in the type of work I did (I landed on Vivo Strategies). At the time, I had a hunch that this was a path I wanted to explore.

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StrategyU

JUNE 12, 2021

One of the best models for thinking about how we process information is through Daniel Kahneman’s breakdown of System 1 and System 2 thinking which he introduced in Thinking, fast and slow. Mental models are turning information into actionable ways of navigating the world, making decisions, and getting things right.

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