StrategyU

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Currently, there are two games that most candidates will encounter: #1 Ecosystem Building : this game involves managing an ecosystem where you need to balance factors like food sources, predators, and environmental conditions to ensure the ecosystem thrives. It has been increasingly appearing in assessments.

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StrategyU

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

But even if I hadn’t gone on to work in consulting, I now know that MECE is a valuable tool for anyone who wants to think more clearly and solve problems more effectively. MECE (Mutually Exclusive, Collectively Exhaustive) is a powerful problem-solving framework that is used in management consulting and various business functions.

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StrategyU

OCTOBER 6, 2024

All these places had leaders who said the right things and talked about building cultures of high performance, high standards, and excellence but the lived reality always fell short. This is normal, and something that makes sense because you need a steady state of operations that is consistent and reliable to keep the business running.

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StrategyU

JANUARY 27, 2021

Indro Nooyi was the CEO of Pepsi and now works with the Yale School of Management as well as working with the state of Connecticut on the Covid-19 rollout. Every business in the world has been grappling with this and therefore, as an advisor to those businesses, I’ve helped them think through that. That will come over.

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StrategyU

APRIL 19, 2022

If you really wanted to jump from Business Analyst to Associate at McKinsey for example, that is definitely a possible path if you are a top performer. In this case, you likely would have to spend an additional six months or year in the BA role and it might come with the title “Senior Business Analyst.”

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StrategyU

AUGUST 22, 2023

This might help you prepare for a negative reaction from a manager by more easily letting you practice going through the experience beforehand. Do you have a toolkit for business problem solving? Our division had a successful quarter, beating the competition by 2% in revenue.

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StrategyU

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Framework #2: The McKinsey 7-S Framework Aligns Your Organization for Success Imagine you’re trying to improve your company’s or team’s performance, but you’re not sure where to start. It’s not just about your direct competitors, but about the entire ecosystem your business operates in.

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