StrategyU

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

A little context on my perspective first: In 2008, I joined McKinsey’s research center in Boston. Big firms are set up to dominate even more… I think AI tools will help firms like McKinsey, BCG, and Bain (though Bain was much later to invest in knowledge management) develop a bigger lead in management consulting.

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StrategyU

JUNE 12, 2021

Activist investor Michael Burry ’ applied critical thinking to analyze the US housing market prior to the 2008 global financial crisis. However, if you spend the time to develop a process for approaching problems that are beyond the capacity of your normal intuitions you will be able to move on to more challenging problems.

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StrategyU

MARCH 10, 2024

I worked in the operations practice while at McKinsey from 2008 to 2010 and the typical engagements were years long. Do you have a toolkit for business problem solving? Different teams might rotate through the project but the teams were aligned against a multi-year transformation effort.

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StrategyU

JULY 5, 2020

So in the last 1800s, Frederick Taylor and several others in the US started exploring new ways to think about running a business. Part of the toolkit McKinsey developed was a 30-page document called the “General Survey Outline” (GSO) and it stood out for how it was different than Taylor’s “how-to” approach.

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