StrategyU

FEBRUARY 8, 2025

From traditional powerhouses such as McKinsey, Bain, and Boston Consulting Group (collectively known as MBB) to other generalist and specialized firms, the industry presents a diverse landscape for aspiring consultants and seasoned professionals alike.

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StrategyU

MARCH 31, 2022

It was developed in the 1960s by Boston Consulting Group (BCG), one of the biggest consulting companies in the world at the time. The Experience Curve relies on the underlying assumption that the more experience a business has in producing a particular product or rendering a service, the lower its cost.

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StrategyU

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

In a presentation to First Round Capital in 2015 she presented an intuitive framework: Source: Radical Candor Many people can quickly identify experiences where they have received feedback that falls in the yellow or green zone. . #2 The easiest way to develop a strong rapport with colleagues is to get to know them.

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StrategyU

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Do you have a toolkit for business problem solving? This course teaches you how to synthesize information into compelling insights, structure your information in ways that help you solve problems, and develop presentations that resonate at the C-Level. So remember. ” “So what?”

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StrategyU

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Instead of answering standard multiple-choice questions or writing essays, you’re immersed in a series of interactive mini-games designed to evaluate your problem-solving skills, logical reasoning, and decision-making abilities. Typically, each candidate will be presented to two games.

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StrategyU

JULY 7, 2021

You might develop the next leg of your tree: This tree is not perfect and the answers at the lowest level are not collectively exhaustive for all the possibilities for increasing revenue and decreasing costs. How Issue Trees Are Linked With Problem Solving. Do you have a toolkit for business problem solving?

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StrategyU

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

use MECE not just for problem-solving, but also for structuring your communication. MECE presentations are always more clear and more persuasive. Developed by the Boston Consulting Group, this framework helps you visualize and balance your product portfolio. Develop strategies for each category.

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StrategyU

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

This is great for me, as I love that kind of book and it’s helped me reflect on my experience at McKinsey and my attempts to figure out why I was able to develop such strong capabilities there. Minto’s first job in the business world was working for Cyrus Eaton, who founded the Pugwash Conferences of nuclear scientists.

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StrategyU

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

A PM needs an approach to organize and prioritize the development backlog. Using this framework, the company’s CFO could present a clear picture of revenue trends to the board. Do you have a toolkit for business problem solving? This is where MECE thinking can be a game-changer.

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StrategyU

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

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. I also think you’ll see a lot of wasted effort on solutions that clients may not care about.

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StrategyU

OCTOBER 2, 2023

When I give feedback to people on writing and presentations, I often just ask them, “What are you really trying to say?” Do you have a toolkit for business problem solving? Say, “Given the recent challenges on our major product lines, this analysis will show the two major pressures that have put pressure on profitability.”

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StrategyU

AUGUST 22, 2023

Do you have a toolkit for business problem solving? This course teaches you how to synthesize information into compelling insights, structure your information in ways that help you solve problems, and develop presentations that resonate at the C-Level.

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StrategyU

MARCH 10, 2024

Often hysterically funny and uncomfortably close to the truth (the consultants’ whiteboard in Office Space with the title “Planning to Plan” is a personal favorite), Hollywood’s depiction of strategy consulting relies on an out-of-date perception of management consulting that looks nothing like the reality of the present.

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StrategyU

MAY 29, 2024

At the highest level, most cases are similar: The interviewer presents background on a “client’s” business problem or scenario (e.g., I remember thinking, “ Oh wow, it is quite useful to think about the most important point BEFORE presenting something. Do you have a toolkit for business problem solving?

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StrategyU

JANUARY 27, 2021

” It enabled him to develop a clear-thinking perspective to truly understand the very essence of a problem.” Do you have a toolkit for business problem solving? Less is the head of the famous Private Equity group with more than a quarter of a trillion dollars under management.

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StrategyU

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

If training is something you can deprioritize, your firm will struggle with developing internal capabilities. Do you have a toolkit for business problem solving? The training was vital to the success of the firm, and everyone treated it as such.

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StrategyU

APRIL 19, 2022

As the scale and ambition of these firms increased, they needed more people to do the work and needed to develop internal pipelines of future partners. In addition to client work, consultants are pressured to develop a “spike” or topic expertise where they can become a go-to person for many clients in the future.

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StrategyU

OCTOBER 6, 2024

If the company is public, you can go to the investor relations tab and download presentations from recent investor conferences. And in the final phase, you’d have structured ways of delivering different kinds of presentations like a “CEO deck,” executive memo. Do you have a toolkit for business problem solving?

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StrategyU

JUNE 28, 2022

Do you have a toolkit for business problem solving? This course teaches you how to synthesize information into compelling insights, structure your information in ways that help you solve problems, and develop presentations that resonate at the C-Level.

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StrategyU

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

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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StrategyU

AUGUST 19, 2024

And on two levels: Problem-solving process: how you solve problems Meta-process: how you talk about how you do #1 The best consulting firms are obsessed with both of these things. In many companies, the time spent on developing problem-solving skills and fundamentals is surprisingly small.

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StrategyU

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

After having a couple more jobs which I continued to learn, develop confidence in my skills and gain more clarity over the type of work I wanted to do, I decided it was time to make the leap. During this transition, many people develop a completely different mindset and perspective on work, income, money and how they live life.

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StrategyU

JANUARY 20, 2025

By grouping ideas, simplifying them, and ensuring that you are fully presenting them (through MECE) they will be much more memorable. This course teaches you how to synthesize information into compelling insights, structure your information in ways that help you solve problems, and develop presentations that resonate at the C-Level.

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StrategyU

JUNE 12, 2021

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. An organization succeeds by taking the results of individual critical thinking and developing processes that can be implemented by others.

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StrategyU

NOVEMBER 28, 2020

There is a set of information that can be presented in many different ways, all being true, but one way of showing the data will align better with the message that the client team wants to share with the client. What is the intent of this presentation of information? Do you have a toolkit for business problem solving?

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StrategyU

JULY 23, 2021

When I first started freelancing I developed a simple page of the possible ways of working with me. In addition to this, I also developed a list of types of projects I wanted to work on. They get access to the course but also one-on-one coaching for their presentations. This can be hard to wrap your head around.

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StrategyU

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

If you’d like to go to the previous section you can find the following links to each: Logic In Writing Logic In Thinking Logic in Problem-Solving Logic In Presentation. One of the most important parts of organizing information is developing a clear summary or insight that describes the group.

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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. From a 1895 presentation to a group of engineers, we find that consultants called themselves “consulting engineers.”. Present): McKinsey Leads The Globalization of The Strategy Consulting Industry.

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StrategyU

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Analytical mindsets allow problem solvers to navigate through complexity and arrive at data-driven solutions as efficiently as possible. This seemingly simple idea not only doubled their revenue in their target market but led to the development of a professional photography program that became a key differentiator for their platform.

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StrategyU

OCTOBER 31, 2024

per year Example Project: A leading retail chain is struggling to adapt to the rise of e-commerce and wants to shift part of its business online. A strategy consulting team from McKinsey works with their C-suite to develop a digital transformation roadmap. Market size estimate : Allied Market Research estimates that this was is a $38.4

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