Consulting Frameworks

Author : Full Professor and Vice Dean Research in the Faculty of Law Peter Oliver,Peter Oliver
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2016-12-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1541208137

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Consulting Frameworks by Full Professor and Vice Dean Research in the Faculty of Law Peter Oliver,Peter Oliver Pdf

Consulting frameworks are what consultants use to frame a problem as well as its solution. Consulting is a specialty of problem solving, and these frameworks act as shortcuts to problem solving. It doesn't mean that they are exclusive to consulting! anyone can learn them to help improve their problem solving skills! For the ones interested in joining consulting, practicing 1000 cases doesn't help if you don't use a framework consistently. Therefore a better approach for preparation is to understand and memorize the frameworks followed by a few cases only to store the framework in your long-term memory. Many applicants practice cases for months and then are surprised that the cases during the interview are not similar. I don't need to belabor this point too much--you get it. Learn how to think with frameworks rather than brute force your way through an unhealthy amount of cases. If you want practice cases, most if not all consulting firms offer their own cases online and for free. Those are more than enough to practice. The Concise Reads Business Success series is a collection of short reading material that highlights important concepts in business education that every student, business owner, and entrepreneur should know from accounting and incorporating, to building a robust business plan and managing operations. We hope you enjoy Peter's easy to read explanations. The affordable pricing makes this series available to anyone willing to learn and the concise aspect makes it so it does not take more than a single day to learn or a single weekend to master. Good luck and please review the book when you're done so that others could see the value derived from this affordable series. Thank you for your interest and happy concise reading!

Author : Marc Cosentino
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Business consultants
ISBN : 0971015864

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Case in Point by Marc Cosentino Pdf

Marc Cosentino demystifies the consulting case interview. He takes you inside a typical interview by exploring the various types of case questions and he shares with you the acclaimed Ivy Case System which will give you the confidence to answer even the most sophisticated cases. The book includes over 40 strategy cases, a number of case starts exercises, several human capital cases, a section on marketing cases and 21 ways to cut costs.

Author : Marc Baaij
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 946 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2013-12-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781446293508

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An Introduction to Management Consultancy by Marc Baaij Pdf

‘I have never seen such a book about management consulting before: this sets a new standard. This book is extremely thorough and addresses all of the relevant topics.’ - Sander van ′t Noordende, Group Chief Executive Products Operating Group, Accenture Whether you are looking to build on your management studies or experience of working in business, you are likely to have come across management consultancy and will need a clear and concise introduction to this area to help you understand its practices and techniques in order to hire and implement management consultancy in the future. This text provides you with these essentials for success in your studies and later industries when working with and not just for consultancy firms. The text is built around learning objectives to empower your understanding of the ′what′, ′how′, ′when′ and ′why′ at macro and micro levels of management consultancy and its stakeholders, and provides you with engaging real life examples and extra web materials for study. As well as full courses on management consultancy, this text will be invaluable to your management knowledge and skill-set across strategy, change, analytics, problem-solving, solution implementation and decision-making as applied by the world′s top management consulting firms, such as McKinsey & Company, The Boston Consulting Group, and Bain & Company. Lecturer’s resources Lecturer’s guide Teaching notes per chapter Answer guidance to end-of-chapter questions in book Suggested discussion questions Suggested small group assignments Suggested small group field project Lecture slides Option 1: provide all figures of the book on PowerPoint slides Option 2: create complete PowerPoint presentations for each chapter Exercises Exam questions Discussion forum Student resources Templates for developing logical structures Web resources Consultancy publications Consultancy web site, career page Job application preparation services Consultancy institutions

Author : Ron Clouse,Valentin Nugmanov
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2018-11-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1722347414

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Case Master by Ron Clouse,Valentin Nugmanov Pdf

Case Master is a curated collection of thoughtful practice cases for consulting which will enable you to get a competitive edge for your upcoming case interviews. Case Master cases are all made to the highest standard and are custom-designed for optimal preparation and achieving mastery of all the core skills for case interviews: analysis, synthesis, calculation, estimation, and creativity. Maximizing the breadth and depth of your learning, Case Master is the only resource to offer concept-driven cases, challenging blindspots, "guesstimateable" axis variables, customizable case difficulty, and handy case kits for partner practice. Alone or with a practice partner, with Case Master you will scrutinize all fundamental case types (profit-and-loss, sales growth, market entry, investment, and counter-competition) and you will learn: 1 set of universal business categories applicable to any consulting case, 2 meanings of "positioning" and 3 meanings of "push vs. pull," 4 types of economic inputs and outputs, 10 trending concepts to expand your problem-solving toolkit, 40 essential business metrics and terms, and much more at Case Master Club online. Whether you are a graduate student or an experienced professional seeking to break into strategy consulting, Case Master will be an investment into your professional future and will help you develop higher levels of both competence and confidence. Go beyond the resources that competing contenders already know and dare to become a Case Master.

Author : Victor Cheng
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0984183523

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Case Interview Secrets by Victor Cheng Pdf

Cheng, a former McKinsey management consultant, reveals his proven, insider'smethod for acing the case interview.

Author : Zhenhua Zhou
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781938134371

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Study On Globalizing Cities, A: Theoretical Frameworks And China's Modes by Zhenhua Zhou Pdf

A Study on Globalizing Cities is the latest masterpiece by Zhou Zhenhua, a famous Chinese economist, who closely tracks the theoretical study of global cities and is actively engaged in the strategic research of Shanghai's development.With rich empirical data and an in-depth analysis, this book is of great theoretical and practical significance. Different from studies on global cities by renowned western scholars, this book extends its perspective to globalizing cities. It explores a unique development model for China's globalizing cities by adopting a creative angle of observation and analytical methods. By criticizing that the traditional global city theory derives the logic relations of global cities directly from globalization, Mr Zhou puts forward the concept of globalization city, which is introduced as a new intermediate explanatory variable. More importantly, this book emphasizes that the building of global cities is not only dependent on the distribution of urban space and urban economic development but also on comprehensive construction of multiple structures and functions of cities.

Author : Tim Darling
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Business consultants
ISBN : OCLC:1310744975

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How to Get Into the Top Consulting Firms by Tim Darling Pdf

Author : Chris Bradley,Martin Hirt,Sven Smit
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2018-02-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781119487623

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Strategy Beyond the Hockey Stick by Chris Bradley,Martin Hirt,Sven Smit Pdf

Beat the odds with a bold strategy from McKinsey & Company "Every once in a while, a genuinely fresh approach to business strategy appears" —legendary business professor Richard Rumelt, UCLA McKinsey & Company's newest, most definitive, and most irreverent book on strategy—which thousands of executives are already using—is a must-read for all C-suite executives looking to create winning corporate strategies. Strategy Beyond the Hockey Stick is spearheading an empirical revolution in the field of strategy. Based on an extensive analysis of the key factors that drove the long-term performance of thousands of global companies, the book offers a ground-breaking formula that enables you to objectively assess your strategy's real odds of future success. "This book is fundamental. The principles laid out here, with compelling data, are a great way around the social pitfalls in strategy development." —Frans Van Houten, CEO, Royal Philips N.V. The authors have discovered that over a 10-year period, just 1 in 12 companies manage to jump from the middle tier of corporate performance—where 60% of companies reside, making very little economic profit—to the top quintile where 90% of global economic profit is made. This movement does not happen by magic—it depends on your company's current position, the trends it faces, and the big moves you make to give it the strongest chance of vaulting over the competition. This is not another strategy framework. Rather, Strategy Beyond the Hockey Stick shows, through empirical analysis and the experiences of dozens of companies that have successfully made multiple big moves, that to dramatically improve performance, you have to overcome incrementalism and corporate inertia. "A different kind of book—I couldn't put it down. Inspiring new insights on the facts of what it takes to move a company's performance, combined with practical advice on how to deal with real-life dynamics in management teams." —Jane Fraser, CEO, Citigroup Latin America

Author : Mohan Kancharla
Publisher : Notion Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2016-12-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781946280404

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Consulting by Mohan Kancharla Pdf

A beginner's guide to the world of consulting, for firms planning to create a footprint and for fellow professionals aiming to get a foothold in this fascinating space. A comprehensive collection of practitioner’s insights compiled from experiences ranging from practice creation, consultative selling, offerings development, engagement execution, building competencies and mentoring consultants. Perspectives covered are across the consulting spectrum from Strategy to Architecture, Portfolio, Process, Governance, Infrastructure, Outsourcing and Transformation Consulting christened as SAPPGIO-T.

Author : Davina Stanley,Gerard Castles
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-19
Category : Business presentations
ISBN : 1925648443

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The So What Strategy by Davina Stanley,Gerard Castles Pdf

Communicate with greater impact. Have you ever been caught at the end of a presentation when your audience, perhaps a leadership team or a Steering Committee, looks at you blankly and asks this most uncomfortable question: 'So what?' How does that help? If you have been in that position once, you don't want to be there again. You want to know how to answer that question in one single, powerful sentence. Or, even better, set yourself up so nobody asks it. In this book, communication strategists Davina Stanley and Gerard Castles reveal their proven approach. It's all about using storylines to get to the 'So what' fast, and being able to make a case to back it up. You can unlock the power of the 'So what' strategy by taking five steps, which are outlined in this book: 1: Understand why mastering storylining is worth the investment. 2: Learn how to use a storyline to identify and harness the 'So what'. 3: Master the seven classic storyline patterns. 4: Use storylines to shape the communication you share. 5: Introduce storylining in your business. Packed with examples, stories, insights and practical steps, Davina and Gerard show you how to apply these strategies to stop your audiences asking you, 'So what? How does that help us?'.

Author : Robert Steiner
Publisher : Robert Steiner
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2015-08-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Case Interview Frameworks by Robert Steiner Pdf

You often hear in discussions about case interviews that you should not use standard business frameworks and concepts at all, because they just don’t fit to the specific case question and interviewers don’t like it when candidates use standard frameworks to solve cases. However, when challenging this shallow, generalized and popularized statements, there aren’t any of those arguments remaining on the table. It is most definitely true that you can't crack a realistic interview case by relying solely on standardized frameworks - but all those business frameworks and concepts are extremely helpful templates which you can and even should put into your toolbox and use them whenever appropriate (if not to the full extent, at least partly!). Such a standard business framework is just a tool - and the tool itself is rarely good or bad, it mainly depends on how and for which purpose you use it. With this book, you achieve all of the following: - Get a profound overview of the most important business concepts and frameworks needed in consulting case interviews. - Really understand those business concepts and frameworks, instead of possessing only knowledge of dangerous half-truths. - Impress your interviewer on how structured and therefore client-friendly you tackle tough case interview questions. - Quickly learn how to actually apply those frameworks to concrete business situations, instead of just having a shallow theoretic knowledge of them. - Be more MECE (mutually exclusive, collectively exhaustive) in setting up your overall case structure at the beginning of your case interview. - Better structure your answers to particular questions later on in your case interview, again being more MECE. - Save tons of time by having high-quality content from 10+ years of consulting and interivew experience together in one single book. - Significantly reduce the risk of losing a tier-1 consulting firm job offer because you were not structured enough in your interview (and we all know how important it is to be ABS - Always Be Structured).

Author : Jeff Kavanaugh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2018-04-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1544510675

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Consulting Essentials by Jeff Kavanaugh Pdf

How do you become a world-class consultant? This is the question on the minds of thousands of young consultants as they graduate from the classrooms of the world's business schools to the offices of top consulting firms. Yet, few of them have been formally trained on the concepts that elevate consultants to the top of their field. Drawing on his experience as a senior partner at a multi-billion dollar consulting firm and adjunct professor at the University of Texas at Dallas MBA program, Jeff Kavanaugh is ready to share the tools of the trade for young professionals to quickly scale the consulting learning curve. Pulling together the best content from his own experience, as well as other world-class consulting leaders and industry professionals he has worked with, Kavanaugh has distilled the lessons into the key skills that separate the best from the rest.

Author : Walter Kiechel
Publisher : Harvard Business Press
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2010-03-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781422157312

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Lords of Strategy by Walter Kiechel Pdf

Imagine, if you can, the world of business - without corporate strategy. Remarkably, fifty years ago that's the way it was. Businesses made plans, certainly, but without understanding the underlying dynamics of competition, costs, and customers. It was like trying to design a large-scale engineering project without knowing the laws of physics. But in the 1960s, four mavericks and their posses instigated a profound shift in thinking that turbocharged business as never before, with implications far beyond what even they imagined. In The Lords of Strategy, renowned business journalist and editor Walter Kiechel tells, for the first time, the story of the four men who invented corporate strategy as we know it and set in motion the modern, multibillion-dollar consulting industry: Bruce Henderson, founder of Boston Consulting Group Bill Bain, creator of Bain & Company Fred Gluck, longtime Managing Director of McKinsey & Company Michael Porter, Harvard Business School professor Providing a window into how to think about strategy today, Kiechel tells their story with novelistic flair. At times inspiring, at times nearly terrifying, this book is a revealing account of how these iconoclasts and the organizations they led revolutionized the way we think about business, changed the very soul of the corporation, and transformed the way we work.

Author : Dhaval Patel,Jalvi Sachaniya
Publisher : Hatchegg Publication
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2023-04-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789395174343

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The Fundamentals of Management Consulting by Dhaval Patel,Jalvi Sachaniya Pdf

“Management consulting is a strategic investment in the future of a business” Management Consulting is a demanding and lucrative career that necessitates a particular set of skills, knowledge, and experience. We have examined the main characteristics of successful management consulting throughout this book, from understanding clients' needs to providing powerful solutions that promote development and innovation. Along the process, we emphasised the significance of tools, methods, methodologies, and strategic thinking in understanding management consulting approaches. We encourage you to approach each engagement with curiosity, inventiveness, and a readiness to learn as you begin your consulting career. Remember that every client is unique, and the key to success is recognising their specific needs and adjusting your approach appropriately. Finally, I would like to thank you for joining me on this journey through the world of management consulting. Whether you are an experienced consultant looking to refine your skills or an aspiring consultant seeking to break into the industry or a student at U.G/P.G level, I hope that this book has provided you with practical insights and advice that you can apply to your consulting practice. Best wishes in your management consulting pursuits, and keep learning, growing, and aiming for excellence.

Author : David Sibbet,Gisela Wendling
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 989 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781119375333

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Visual Consulting by David Sibbet,Gisela Wendling Pdf

Visualization—in your own imagination, on the wall, and with media—supports any consultant who is learning to design and facilitate transformational change, leadership development, stakeholder involvement processes, and making sense of complex challenges. This book, from leaders in the field, shows you how. Building on Peter Block’s Flawless Consulting, it explains how to visually contract and scope work, gather data, provide feedback, plan interventions, implement, and support on-going sustainability in organizational and community settings. Unlike Block’s work, Visual Consulting addresses the challenging problems of guiding organizational and social change processes that involve multiple levels and types of stakeholders, with interests in both local and global environments. It demonstrates how visualization and design thinking can be used to get more creative and productive results that are “owned” by everyone. The practices described apply to organizational as well as diverse, cross-boundary consulting projects. In this book, you will. . . Learn powerful visual tools for all key stages of the consulting process, including marketing your services Understand the predictable challenges of change and how to successfully guide organizations and communities through them Learn how to collaborate with clients to get sustainable results Find tools for using visualization comprehensively, for both inner and outer work Successfully guide change in both organizations and communities The fourth installment in the Visual Facilitation series, this book teaches you how to activate the full range of visual tools, methods, and models to support stepping into successful, contemporary consulting relationships.