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Job Description: What’s a Management Consultant?

The Clever Consultant

We’ll start this occasional series on job descriptions with: Management Consultant. Enter the management consultant. The management consultant will come in and review the problem, analyze sales, perhaps interview key management staff, and try to figure out why tablet sales have fallen so sharply.

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How to De-Risk Working with a Freelance Management Consultant

Comatch

The world is changing rapidly, and the way that companies operate within it needs to shift as well. More than ever, organizations are using independent experts and freelance management consultants to address critical challenges. I recommend conducting an extensive interview that evaluates more than hard skills. Probably not.

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Oliver Wyman Careers

CaseInterview.com

The current incarnation of the consulting organization known as Oliver Wyman comes from a series of acquisitions and combinations that include the original Oliver, Wyman & Company management consulting firm and Mercer Consulting, both acquired by Marsh & McLennan. Today, the four practices are: General Management Consulting.

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IMS Consulting Group (IMS Health) Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

IMS HEALTH INTERVIEWS & CULTURE . Tender strategies and management. Key account management strategies. Life-cycle management strategy. Organizational redesign/change management. Today we continue our firm profile series with an in-depth review of IMS Health. Value based access decision framework.

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Save the silver bullet – a shameless piece of self promotion!

Ben de Haldevang

With your choice of case studies and the points made in the interviews, you have managed to conceptualize transformation without turning your book into an obscure PhD thesis. The combination of interviews from those at the transformation coalface, in-depth case studies and a core framework delivers a really valuable read.

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We May Not Have a Clear Path, But We Each Have One

Harmonious Workplaces

In 1997, Jim promoted me from CSR (customer service representative) to assistant manager of Blockbuster within a few months just prior to my graduation from college. I also handled recruitment, payroll, inventory management, and other store operations. Here, the rubber met the road when I could take how I learned to train others at St.

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How Women of Color Get to Senior Management

Harvard Business

To increase diversity at senior executive levels, more must be known about one group in particular: women of color in midlevel leadership, who successfully developed and progressed beyond individual contributor and first-line management. How did (or didn’t) managers play a role? They pursue management challenges.