Strategic Planning and Management Insights

JANUARY 17, 2020

The strategic planning process contains various steps, exercises and opportunities to develop a culture of alignment and follow-through within your organization. Whether you're gearing up to lead your own strategy session, or plan on attending and participating in one, this guide will help you through each stage of the planning process.

Exercises 83

Exercises Interviews Resources Culture 83

Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 31, 2020

To secure a final round interview at Bain, you would have to be in the top 3% of applicants for that office. According to 80,000 HOURS , there are more highly qualified people than there are jobs at top strategy consulting firms, and it is implausible to be more than 50% confident that you can get an offer regardless of how qualified you are.

Case Interview 88

Case Interview Consulting Interviews How To 88

Successful Independent Consulting

JANUARY 20, 2017

My company represents self-employed professionals across the country, and over the last seven years I have interviewed, coached, or worked with more than 200 independent management consultants. Exercise #1: Look at Your History. Were you involved with the strategy, planning, implementation, or all of the above?

Consulting 150

Consulting Turnaround Exercises Technology Implementation 150

Management Consulted

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

Learn more about the interview preparation course and guide that helped land offers at BCG, Accenture, and McKinsey. Master fit questions, conquer case studies, and become the smartest interviewer in the room. Over 50 fit questions that you’re guaranteed to hear in consulting interviews. Am I glad I bought it!!

Case Interview 175

Case Interview Bain McKinsey Interviews 175

LSA Global

MAY 26, 2023

About LSA Global Founded in 1995, LSA Global is the leading performance consulting, coaching, and training firm that helps high growth technology, services, and life-science companies create a competitive advantage by powerfully aligning their culture and talent with their strategy. Learn more about getting aligned.

Management 36

Management Comparison Training Training 36

Management Consulted

OCTOBER 12, 2014

You are valued for your ability to review/cut/analyze data and use the results to come up with solutions and strategies to your clients’ dilemmas. There are other options - including our “Consultant for a Day” exercise or the MC Consulting Bootcamps. What should your strategy be? Khan Academy.

Course 184

Course Development Consulting Finance 184

Management Consulted

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

guided interview prep homework and practice plans. We had to up the ante…free ourselves from the confines of a book…so that we could blast open the most valuable vault in the history of consulting interview prep. 200+ cases classified by interview round (1 and 2) so you can tailor your practice progression.

Banking 113

Banking Case Interview Consulting Interviews 113

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 26, 2017

One of the CEOs we interviewed, Jean-Francois van Boxmeer of Heineken, put it this way: “My role does not allow for a lack of focus. I feel the brain is like a muscle, and I exercise it all the time.” Also, exercise and the types of food we eat, significantly impacts your ability to stay focused. I must be on point.

Strategy 47

Strategy Strategy Strategy& Exercises 47

The Management Centre

APRIL 8, 2024

Chris Chadford, Learning and Development Manager at the Calico Group In this interview Chris Chadford, Learning and Development Manager at the Calico Group, shares his experience of developing managers so they have commercial, financial and innovation skills. Ultimately, enhancing those skills means we can have even more impact. What’s next?

Management 52

Management Groups Development Course 52

Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 29, 2021

There are over ten positions that are chosen each semester, and they include co-presidents, marketing, strategy, and operations. Sometimes, they also complete team-building exercises such as “Escape the Room”. I wanted to learn about DISI from firsthand experience, so I interviewed its two Co-Presidents.

Consulting 88

Consulting Engineering Case Interview Survey 88

Comatch

AUGUST 29, 2022

You can do this exercise in a structured way using an “Ishikawa” or “fishbone” diagram. Tip: Make identifying root causes a group exercise! This is the “hypothesis testing” part of your problem-solving exercise, where you will identify the most important levers to solve the problem.

Exercises 52

Exercises Case Interview Financial Groups 52

Management Consulted

APRIL 27, 2014

Many history, English, and art majors, engineers, and law students – all of interest to consulting firms, but lacking in business basics – come to us asking how they can develop their business understanding to prepare for consulting interviews. Complete our Consultant For a Day exercise. Size its market.

Development 205

Development Consulting Boston Consulting Group McKinsey 205

Management Consulted

JULY 15, 2015

Interview Tips & Tricks. There is not one sure way that leads your application to be accepted to go on to the interview process. Again, depending on the position for which you have applied the interview process can vary slightly. Virgin even allows you to take an unlimited amount of vacation hours!!!

Groups 100

Groups Culture Interviews Travel 100

Management Consulted

DECEMBER 4, 2013

This is a transcribed phone interview between Rachel (name changed) and Jenny Rae – enjoy her insights about failing the first time around but coming back for consulting success and landing an offer with McKinsey in her senior year. I feel like that’s what impressed the interviewers most this time. So I did two internships.

McKinsey 125

McKinsey Case Interview Interviews Oliver Wyman 125

Management Consulted

OCTOBER 3, 2012

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.

Consulting 204

Consulting Case Interview Interviews Engineering 204

Tom Spencer

MARCH 17, 2018

It does not come as a surprise that AI is mainly a focus of CIOs and CTOs who are concerned with developing AI strategies, which often entail building advanced IT infrastructures and investing in relevant talent. There are many different frameworks and approaches to strategy planning. Strategic Planning. Where do we want to be?

Data 87

Data Case Interview Financial Tools 87

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 20, 2018

I’m working with a CEO who’s in the midst of rethinking her company’s strategy so it can better meet customer demands and thrive financially. The following strategies can you help you better understand your employees’ perspectives. Menahem Kahana/Getty Images. Profile Your Audience at Every Stage.

Banking 53

Banking Interviews Retail Survey 53

Martinka Consulting

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

The sub-title includes, “After years of exercise and healthy eating, a reporter’s blocked artery came as a shock.”. A health industry reporter, who exercised, ate healthy (a lot of salmon, oatmeal, and similar but with a passion for cheese), and paid attention to his health found out he had a almost completely blocked carotid artery.

Exercises 40

Exercises Operations Journal Sales 40

Management Consulted

MAY 21, 2015

As for Booz & Company, they were purchased by PricewaterhouseCoopers and became Strategy& , a firm we covered in an earlier Firm Profile. Organization & Strategy. Candidates will be interviewed on campus or by phone. Chipper Boulas – Former Vice President of Corporate Strategy – eBay. CAPABILITIES.

Case Interview 100

Case Interview Interviews Resumes Government 100

Management Consulted

SEPTEMBER 20, 2015

Can you talk a bit about the support network at the Consulting Society and how they prepared you for consulting interviews? When you actually began the interviews, what did you discover? When I first started doing interviews, I’d get nervous and make the answer a lot more complicated than then really needed to be. Peter: Sure.

Deloitte 100

Deloitte Case Interview Interviews Case Study 100

Management Consulted

JANUARY 22, 2017

Interview Tips & Tricks. We offer a bi-monthly newsletter (by application only) for high level strategy jobs at top firms around the world. Prepare for interviews. ———— One of the main reasons people go into consulting is access to incredible post-consulting career opportunities.

Culture 100

Culture Apparel Interviews Consulting 100

Tom Spencer

APRIL 22, 2018

Try not to propose a very similar strategy to what the company has actually undertaken because this risks your answer being viewed as “too-safe” (though benchmarking similar situations that happened in other industries works quite well). Be creative but not over the line. Present well. Drive the presentation the way you want.

Case Interview 68

Case Interview Benchmarking Analysis Industry 68

Cheryl Cran

OCTOBER 12, 2016

Here is the fantastic interview with Pat Kramer CEO of BDO Canada on future of work. BDO is changing this and in today’s environment our leaders have to be deeply aware and use that awareness to build strategies. Through the last year we have been articulating the need for focus and engaging our leaders in strategies to move forward.

Interviews 20

Interviews Emotional Intelligence Leadership Agile 20

Prudent Pedal

MARCH 27, 2020

Optimize inbound conversion rates on marketing channels-While CRO is a never-ending exercise, this hiatus allows time to experiment more with updated content, the mix, and its messaging. Search for: About the Author Jeff McKay Founder & CEO Prudent Pedal Jeff helps firms set smart growth strategies in motion. Learn more.

Journal 72

Journal Video Marketing ROI 72

Brimstone Consulting

DECEMBER 20, 2021

If you want to work out more but find exercise difficult and boring, downloading a goal-setting app probably won’t help. If we’re going to solve this problem, organizations must take the lead in developing an antiburnout strategy that moves beyond apps, wellness programs, and perks. and, ultimately, in yourself.

Leadership 63

Leadership Conference Research Case Interview 63

MishTalk

APRIL 17, 2014

I really hope that I do not have to exercise this right and that we are able to solve all of today’s pressing issues with political and diplomatic means.” US President Barack Obama said in an interview on Wednesday that Mr Putin was supporting “at minimum, non-state militias” in Ukraine. But they need to behave reasonably.”

Exercises 73

Exercises Interviews Government Course 73

CaseInterview.com

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

As a consultant , your "power" when working with front line employee-type clients comes from your access to senior management, your influence (or perception of influence) over senior management, and your ability to request senior management to exercise their authority to help you accomplish a goal. and it creates an opportunity for you.

Consulting 45

Consulting Case Interview Interviews McKinsey 45

QEmploy

JUNE 10, 2019

While cooking, driving, exercising, shopping, commuting, you name it. Technovation is an interesting weekly podcast series hosted by Metis Strategy president Peter High. It features the latest news in the sector and in depth interviews from experts. Software Defined Interviews. Why should you listen to podcasts?

Development 75

Development Consulting Software Industry 75

Harvard Business

MAY 21, 2018

Although concerned leaders try to address this problem in many ways — teamwork exercises, mentorship, perks, innovative office spaces, and incentive programs — their solutions miss a simple but pivotal point: Employees are engaged by engaging jobs. Amanda is now a recognized and sought after leader in her own right.

Case Interview 35

Case Interview Exercises Recruiting Recruitment 35

Melissa Agnes

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

Not good at media interviews? Can you do the same thing after a training exercise? When things go wrong, highly developed coping strategies are essential. The big picture is nice but how you get there is much more important. The best performers set mini goals and break the huge tasks into bite sized chunks. 4) Stay in the “Now”.

Exercises 94

Exercises Conference Interviews Media 94

Effective Managers

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

We need to learn new strategies for ensuring transparency and building trust through remote communication, to which an accountability culture is key. Building an environment that promotes accountability isn’t an easy, feel-good exercise, but a process that requires careful planning and constant evaluation. Communication is Vital.

Culture 52

Culture ROI Operations Tools 52

Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

In his 1974 interview with ABC News , science fiction author Arthur C. By spending up to 42 hours researching and interviewing a given candidate, we take great care to ensure that we find and hire the right people. Clarke painted a picture of how computers would change our way of life by the year 2001.

Management 40

Management Case Interview Leadership Interviews 40

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 18, 2017

That’s what my consulting partners and I recently found when we surveyed 134 senior executives in large organizations and conducted follow-up interviews with 44 of them. Here are a few strategies we’ve seen work for the women we’ve coached. Create relationship maps.

Interviews 28

Interviews Exercises Construction Conference 28

Consulting Matters

APRIL 24, 2020

Interview Transcript: Betsy Jordyn : Hey, it’s Betsy Jordyn. I started with an article, then a five-dollar eBook, and then $199 you know strategy workbook. And one of the exercises they had me do was sit down and write just a quick paragraph on your biggest win, as far back as you can remember, professional win, right?

Interviews 156

Interviews Consulting How To Operations 156

Chad Barr

DECEMBER 24, 2014

The more diverse your marketing efforts, the more effective and attractive your web presence strategy. Some people enter because they want to purchase attractive products or services; others because they learn best through listening or watching teleconferences; still others because they read interviews; and some by watching videos on YouTube.

Marketing 52

Marketing Case Interview Tools Financial 52

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 8, 2017

What should you say in an interview? Here are some strategies to employ. This exercise will also likely provide job leads, he says. Interviews will definitely require a bit more care and forethought than they did before. After you’ve been fired, getting back into the job market can be difficult. Prepare your story.

Cover Letters 28

Cover Letters Case Interview How To Interviews 28

MishTalk

JULY 23, 2013

City bureaucrats and the PEL can hem and haw and p**s and moan, but can-kicking exercises, "scoops", and tax hikes will only make the problem worse. or financial instrument, or to participate in any particular trading or investment strategy. 2011-04-23: Syndicated Interview on Canadian Radio - My Segment Starts 29:31.

Real Estate 77

Real Estate Financial Advertising Case Interview 77