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Consulting 101: Operations, Hierarchies, and Types of Firms

Tom Spencer

Learning how consulting firms operate can help you better understand what you would do as an analyst. Clients may need help with market research, competitor analysis, growth strategies, supply chain optimization, product development, or a range of other issues. By definition, a consultant’s job is to consult a client.

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Consultant, Contractor, Freelancer - Labels Matter!

Successful Independent Consulting

Positioning yourself the wrong way can limit your income, cost you thousands of dollars a year in taxes, stunt your professional development, and tie you unnecessarily to the traditional 9-to-5 routine. By definition, we stand outside of the system we analyze, troubleshoot, or design. Friends don’t let friends W-2!

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Management Consulting

CaseInterview.com

They evaluate issues that the client is facing and help them develop action plans for improvement. It’s not easy to come up with a simple definition of what we do. Rather than addressing the operational angle of how to do it, we address the bigger question of what to do.

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How to Develop a Professional Services Marketing Strategy – Part 1

Prudent Pedal

This post is the first in a series to share how professional services can develop and execute marketing strategy. The 2 major challenges to developing professional services marketing strategy . Second, each professional services firm operates within a well-defined Performance Envelope. profitable work). The BS of PS (i.e.

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Poets and Quants in Management Consulting

Tom Spencer

equations, theorems, and software development checklists), operating from frameworks often come naturally. The other advantage that quants have is their ability to operate technical tools. Excel is definitely an important baseline consulting tool. Since quants tend to be familiar with rule-based systems (e.g.

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Considerations for Starting your Consulting Career at a Boutique Firm

Tom Spencer

There is no established definition of what identifies a consulting firm as boutique. For our purposes, let’s identify a boutique firm as one that has less than 100 consultants (emphasis on ‘consultants’ and not staff) and operates from at most only a handful of offices (even if those offices are in multiple countries). Compensation.

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How do MBA Programs Prepare you for Consulting?

Tom Spencer

These are definitely important to get you there, but it’s not enough to know they exist, it’s important to delve further into WHAT each aspect is actually composed of. With a team of five, we delved into 3+ years of sales data and operational costs to create an effective final presentation.