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Consulting 101: Operations, Hierarchies, and Types of Firms

Tom Spencer

In this short post, we will briefly explore how consulting firms work, the hierarchy within firms, the main types of firms, and a few ways to learn more about a particular firm as you chart your career path, prepare your applications, and get ready to matriculate into the consulting industry. How do Consulting Firms Work?

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What is the Professional Services Industry All About?

Progressus

Professional services is an expansive space spanning several industries – consulting firms, software publishers, IT service providers, even manufacturers and distributors that offer post-sale services — each with its own set of challenges, regulations, and opportunities. They provide customized, knowledge-based services to their clients.

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Navigating the Entrepreneurial Journey

Business Consulting Agency

Reflect on your professional experience, educational background, and personal interests to identify the industry or niche that resonates with your entrepreneurial aspirations and vision for the future.

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Chief Ecosystem Officer – Taking Customer Centricity to the Next Level

Kates Kesler

Specifically, how can we ensure that we are appropriately looking ahead, curating market opportunities, and defining holistic responses to address the specific needs of our customers? Doesn’t the Chief Marketing Officer look at opportunities out in the market?

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The Central versus Decentral Dilemma: How the HR Practitioner can Facilitate a “Center-Led” Solution

Kates Kesler

Covid-19 exposed which companies in an industry could change direction quickly and respond to new consumer, employee, regulatory, and supply demands, turning adversity into opportunity. Shadow functions pop up in the markets and business units when leaders become frustrated with bureaucratic colleagues at the center. An Example.

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Start Slow, Finish Fast: Rightsizing Your Organization the Right Way

Kates Kesler

Consider these five factors: Customers Strategy and Organization Capabilities Operating Model Organization Shape Talent. Operating Model. Even the best run companies are faced with right sizing due to market fluctions, technological advancements, demand shifts, and industry disrupters. Customers. Start slow, finish fast.

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A.T. Kearney Interview & Culture

Management Consulted

Now known to be THE best sourcing, procurement and operations consulting firm in the world, A.T. Kearney becomes a wholly owned subsidiary of EDS in September, nearly doubling in size and vastly expanding its industry expertise and information technology capabilities. Marketing & Sales. Operations. 1995 – A.T.