Category: management consulting

Strategy Canvas: Charting a Company’s Future

The strategy canvas has become something of a go-to process to guide companies through the difficult and fraught process of strategic planning. Still, there are many companies and consultants who…

Focusing On The Top Line In Crisis

Why Businesses Should Focus On The Top Line In Crisis

In a crisis, like what we're experiencing with Covid-19, should businesses focus on the "top-line", (gross sales), or the "bottom-line", (profit after expenses)? Each have their own pros and cons,…

Job Outlook for Consultants 2021

The management consulting job outlook for 2021 is something thousands of ambitious new graduates – and experienced industry hands - are looking forward to with anticipation and concern. The consulting…

Stakeholder Analysis

Stakeholder Analysis

Stakeholder analysis is one of the most important things anyone in the business world can do as they prepare to start any new project. In business, as in life, no…

What Is the GROW Coaching Model?

What Is the GROW Coaching Model?

Key Insights The GROW coaching model is a structured four-step framework used to help individuals and teams set goals, assess their current situation, identify obstacles, and create a clear action…

Virtual Networking

Networking has always been central to success in the management consulting recruiting process (and business in general). Building relationships is how businesses and careers grow. However, in the era of…

Career Change at 40

Career Change at 40: Breaking Into Consulting as an Experienced Hire

Every non-pandemic year, management consulting firms across the world send current and former employees to recruit a fresh cohort of talent from university ranks. This might give you the impression…

KPMG Lakehouse

KPMG Lakehouse: KPMG Professional Development Center

KPMG Lakehouse is changing the training game. Prior to the launch of the KPMG Lakehouse training center in Orlando, Florida, you’d never hear a KPMG consultant saying, “I really love…

What Is Critical Thinking Skills?

What Is Critical Thinking Skills?

Critical thinking is critical – pun intended – in today’s problem-riddled workplace. Every single day we are faced with issues that require us to dig deeper than the surface level…

Tipping Point Leadership

Tipping Point Leadership

Leading in today’s business environment is not easy, and creating change is even harder. William Bratton understood that. In 1994, Bratton pioneered what has now come to be known as…

What Is Lean Six Sigma

What Is Lean Six Sigma?

“What is lean six sigma?” is a question Western businesspeople have been asking themselves for decades since the meteoric rise of Japanese industry in the 1980s. Since the term’s introduction,…

How to Create a Business Plan

How to Create a Business Plan

Many people never learn how to create a business plan even though they own and operate a business. Maybe they think formal business plans are reserved for multinational corporations, to…