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StrategyU
NOVEMBER 18, 2021
“Strategy” is a word that attracts a lot of excitement in the business world. People who work on strategy get paid more and senior executives like to use the word a lot to talk about their decisions. In consulting, I worked with many companies helping them to develop strategies.
StrategyU
MARCH 31, 2022
Here is an excerpt from Lords of Strategy about how BCG helped to repackage this thinking: BCG devised the curve in 1966. A client, General Instruments, was having trouble matching competitors’ prices in its television-components business. They pointed out two things about the problems with experience curves. Wishful Thinking?
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StrategyU
JULY 23, 2021
Managing this delicate balance is vital to ensure you lay the groundwork to building a lasting freelance business. A common strategy is to start with a brand and then shift to working under your name later. In my case, I started freelancing under the name “Vivo Strategies.” Click Here To Learn More And Enroll.
StrategyU
JULY 5, 2020
The history of strategy consulting starts with Frederick Taylor and the Scientific Management movement but took many twists and turns as it evolved into its current state, an industry looking inward and pondering where it fits in the new technology-powered business world. Chapter 1: Frederick Taylor: “The System Must Be First”.
StrategyU
SEPTEMBER 20, 2024
But it’s not just about reaching the correct solution—how you approach the problem, the strategy you use, and the decisions you make along the way are just as important. The McKinsey Problem Solve Game consists of different mini-games, each designed to test different aspects of your cognitive abilities and problem-solving skills.
StrategyU
OCTOBER 2, 2023
The same pattern can apply to a knowledge professional and a manager. Do you have a toolkit for business problem solving? I created Think Like a Strategy Consultant as an online course to make the tools of strategy consultants accessible to driven professionals, executives, and consultants.
StrategyU
MARCH 10, 2024
The mystique of strategy consulting has inspired films such as Office Space and Up In the Air and TV shows like House of Lies. While I generally agree with many of the criticisms of strategy consulting, I am more interested in demystifying what consultants do and how you can learn the same skills without having to work in the industry.
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