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Why McKinsey Will Win In The Age of AI

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These firms will likely be able to: Serve existing clients across a wider range of areas by mining their internal capabilities for opportunities. Invest heavily in software solutions to sell ongoing services to existing clients at higher margins. AI will give them leverage for coding support and identifying opportunities.

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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. Instead, I turned back to him and said, “Sounds like a talent problem, not a training problem. What do you think?”

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

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Here is McDonald again (emphasis mine): “The emphasis in the GSO was more on why managers did things, as opposed to how they did them. Do you have a toolkit for business problem solving? Special thanks to Antoine Buteau for his contributions to this essay.