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How To Beat The McKinsey Solve Game

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It’s not just any test; it’s a game designed to challenge your thinking, and your problem-solving abilities, right from the start—every click you make counts on how you will be perceived. What is the McKinsey Problem Solve Game? Be strategic with your time : it is crucial!

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Five Powerful Consulting Frameworks: MECE, 7S, Porter’s Five Forces, BCG Growth-Share & Ansoff

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It underpins all great communication and problem-solving. Applying MECE thinking, we reorganized the expenses into clear, non-overlapping categories that laddered up to three buckets: “direct costs,” “indirect costs,” and “overhead.” MECE is every consultant’s favorite framework or principle.

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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 2 (1880s? This title undoubtedly influenced James O.