StrategyU
OCTOBER 2, 2023
Do you have a toolkit for business problem solving? I created Think Like a Strategy Consultant as an online course to make the tools of strategy consultants accessible to driven professionals, executives, and consultants. Ask yourself while working on things: “So what?” ” “So what?”
StrategyU
NOVEMBER 18, 2021
“Strategy” is a word that attracts a lot of excitement in the business world. People who work on strategy get paid more and senior executives like to use the word a lot to talk about their decisions. In consulting, I worked with many companies helping them to develop strategies.
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StrategyU
AUGUST 22, 2023
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.
StrategyU
MARCH 10, 2024
The mystique of strategy consulting has inspired films such as Office Space and Up In the Air and TV shows like House of Lies. While I generally agree with many of the criticisms of strategy consulting, I am more interested in demystifying what consultants do and how you can learn the same skills without having to work in the industry.
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. If they are, then there is a clear problem. Wishful Thinking? ” Damn.
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.
StrategyU
JULY 7, 2021
How Issue Trees Are Linked With Problem Solving. At StrategyU we are fans of the SCQA process to define problems and develop hypotheses. This approach enables us to have a rigorous problem-solving approach to business problems instead of starting with the solution in mind from the beginning.
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