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Consultant Ninja: How not to do a consulting case study.

Consultant Ninja

How not to do a consulting case study. I would never accept his answer in a case interview from a candidate; I would interrupt the candidate, and press them on why they think thats a reasonable assumption. I interview analysts, and the ones I hire are the ones who are detail oriented, and get the numbers right.

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Why consulting?

Management Consulted

The prize for best answer was a FREE Consulting Case Bank and The Consulting Bible 3rd edition – a HUGE giveaway – so we weren’t surprised when we heard from so many of you. As we were looking through your responses, we realized you were answering as if you were in an interview – and that’s smart.

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Delivering an Unforgettable Customer Experience - Think customers.

1 to 1

1to1 Case in Point. This years winners for the Gartner & 1to1 Media CRM Excellence Awards , Intuit and United Airlines, are able to accomplish this in different ways. Intuit also administers a panel of about 10,000 accountants and tax professionals who share their input through in-depth interviews and topical surveys.

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When a Simple Rule of Thumb Beats a Fancy Algorithm

Harvard Business

As they reported in a paper published in 2008 , rule-of-thumb methods were generally as good or even slightly better at predicting individual customer behavior than sophisticated models. “In general, if you are in an uncertain world, make it simple,” Gigerenzer said when I interviewed him earlier this year.

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