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Problem-Solving Tools to Help Your Business Increase Productivity

Wrike

We’ve pulled together this list of problem-solving tools that will address some common team roadblocks and increase productivity within your business. . Problem: You can’t figure out task dependencies. Use this problem-solving tool: Gantt charts. Use this problem-solving tool: Eisenhower Matrix.

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How Top-Tier Consultants at McKinsey, Bain, and BCG Really Solve Problems 

StrategyU

Problem-solving” is one of the most overused and least understood phrases in the business world. When many people talk about solving problems, they are rarely talking about a problem-solving process. What I got wrong about problem-solving What are the most important skills you need to be successful?

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Why Strategy is Simple and How Developing A Strategic Perspective Can Accelerate Your Career

StrategyU

Most people don’t realize that you can find the strategy documents of most public companies by going to their investor relations page and then looking for recent presentations that they have made at conferences. These kinds of things are also included in most companies’ annual reports or 10-K documents.

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Five Freelancing Skills That Matter – Lessons From A Former Strategy Consultant

StrategyU

At this point, I still use the Vivo Strategies for legal documents but rarely use it with anything else. However, anyone who has worked on these specific teams within the firm knows that the internal documents they share with clients are much more specific. If I can get them to edit the document directly, even better.

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How To Give Feedback Like A McKinsey Consultant

StrategyU

This can lead to frustration and wasted effort on trivial matters (I once had a manager who made me capitalize a word that really shouldn’t have been capitalized on every document). Do you have a toolkit for business problem solving? Is this feedback on something that they can control?

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How To Build A Culture Of Excellence In A Consulting Firm

StrategyU

They might say yes initially but then I ask if they’ve read strategy reports, investor documents, done store visits (if appropriate), and done interviews to understand their clients better. You can find it in corporate strategy documents, earnings call transcripts, press, and public interviews. If so, how much? He was supportive.

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

StrategyU

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. Do you have a toolkit for business problem solving? Special thanks to Antoine Buteau for his contributions to this essay.