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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.