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How I’d Use AI Tools (If I Still Worked In Consulting)

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To demonstrate this, I asked Bard , googles AI chat tool, the following question: “What are three ways someone might use a tool like Bard that would help them work like a strategy consultant?” This information can then be analyzed to identify trends, patterns, and insights that would be helpful to a strategy consultant.

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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”.

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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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The Analyst and Associate Levels: Early-Career In Strategy Consulting. Strategy Consulting Firms Hire Entry-Level Consultants, But Typically Less Than Grad School Hires. 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.

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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.