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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. Do you have a toolkit for business problem solving? In consulting, things are always changing.

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

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Other professional services decided to get in the fun too with IBM, Deloitte and Arthur Anderson all having strategy consulting offerings by the mid 90s. Do you have a toolkit for business problem solving? Special thanks to Antoine Buteau for his contributions to this essay.