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New Meets Traditional: How Project Teams Benefit From More Options 

PM Alliance

Interviews with job applicants are easily conducted through web conferencing platforms, but you may want to hang onto the longtime practice of bringing your top candidates in for an onsite visit, too. You’ll still have easy, on-demand access to your project data while continuing to offer that human touch many people appreciate.

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The Deep Flaw in MBB Strategic Planning

CaseInterview.com

When I first started recruiting for consulting jobs, an interviewer at Bain shared a story (arguably a legend at this point) about how Bain (or it might have been McKinsey) was asked to advise Motorola on whether or not they should enter the mobile phone market. This is not at all to pass judgment on these people.

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Why consulting?

Management Consulted

As we were looking through your responses, we realized you were answering as if you were in an interview – and that’s smart. These days, it pays to practice being in “interview mode” so you’re ready for the real thing – whether it’s networking with a neighbor at Starbucks or sitting in the hot seat.

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The Secret History of Agile Innovation

Harvard Business

Some trace agile methodologies all the way back to Francis Bacon’s articulation of the scientific method in 1620. Shewhart taught this iterative and incremental-development methodology to his mentee, W. The signatories posted their document online and invited others to add their names as supporters.

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Positioning Yourself As The Expert — How To Develop A Consulting Voice That Clients Will Listen To with Ron Carucci: Podcast #21

Consulting Success

Many consulting firms spend time writing about their methodologies or writing about their own case studies to self-promote. I thought I was having good ideas that are interesting and well-documented the world will come to you and that’s so far from the case. It’s a very crowded market out there. That was my big problem.

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ZS Associates Firm Profile

Management Consulted

Below are some of the skills they are looking for in interns: Familiarity with formal software development life-cycle (SDLC) methodology. Also, there are many layers of review before a presentation or document is actually finalized – understandable due to the firm’s core values of excellence and accuracy, but it eats into time.