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. Translation: change management for IT projects. Translation: turnaround expert. The exact opposite is true.

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Consulting Turnaround Exercises Technology Implementation 150

Tom Spencer

JULY 13, 2019

These firms also use a generalist model, meaning that consultants tend not to develop a specialization until they become managers. Some of the most notable specialisations include healthcare, IT or tech, and turnaround consulting. Then there is the type of consulting that focuses solely on a specific industry or functional area.

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Consulting Turnaround Healthcare Deloitte 60

Management Consulted

DECEMBER 16, 2008

Bankers do some for roadshows, due diligence, etc but spend 90% of their time in one office until you’re partner-level (this is investment banking; you can expect more travel in private equity and investment management). Relationship with coworkers, managers, and firm. We offer resume editing and interview prep.

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Banking Boston Consulting Group Consulting Management 272

CaseInterview.com

MARCH 26, 2019

The PARADE Method (tm) is an approach to answering resume-oriented job interview questions. It is an approach I developed that is tailored for answering these questions in job interviews for management consulting, as well as interviews for senior executive positions in industry. Interviewers want to know what you did.

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Case Interview Interviews Resumes Retail 81

Jerry Fletcher

MARCH 27, 2021

For instance, the interviewer in a pod cast asks how you accomplished a turnaround for a client or what process was used to save multiple clients. That’s why the Institute of Management Consultants (IMC) has a 15 point code of ethics. Ego boosting events These can take on many guises. Forewarned is forearmed. But not all of us.

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Marketing Consulting Ethics Case Interview 75

Tom Spencer

JUNE 23, 2018

This may include discrete projects completed at arms length, such as due diligence on a transaction, or turnaround projects where consultants are embedded within an organisation. Finally, senior management may hire consultants as an independent second pair of eyes, to help justify critical decisions and strategic choices.

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Consulting Case Interview Turnaround Analysis 88

Tom Spencer

JULY 2, 2015

Turnarounds. Assuming RadioShack averts bankruptcy and achieves a successful refinancing, what should the strategy be to turnaround and save this iconic company? Assuming RadioShack averts bankruptcy and achieves a successful refinancing, what should the strategy be to turnaround and save this iconic company?

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Consulting Turnaround Case Interview Retail 60

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

From a business strategist who can appear aloof and dismissive of those with less intellectual horsepower, to a general manager who aligns and inspires her region through personal connections and demonstrates genuine care for people. You can create your personal experience map after you: Interview experts in your field. Build your map.

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freshminds

MARCH 5, 2018

Different industries need to test different skills and therefore depending on whether you’re applying to management consultancies, strategy consultancies or investment banking, your case study will be slightly different. Operational Cases: Operations Case, Increasing Sales, Reducing Costs, Improving the Bottom Line, Turnarounds.

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Case Study Case Studies Study Case Interview 53

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

We then conducted a series of in-depth individual interviews, delving into pivotal experiences in their personal history and career progression, and using Korn Ferry’s executive online assessment to measure key personality traits and drivers that had an impact. Women could be ready for the CEO role sooner. But what else did you do?

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Interviews Benchmarking Case Interview Talent 28

CaseInterview.com

MARCH 16, 2020

When I’m not teaching about case interviews and working with clients, I volunteer and train as an emergency medical responder. In looking at the medical literature on coronavirus, the current treatment protocol is essentially symptom management. Hey, this stuff is useful in real life not just case interviews.) you can’t breathe.

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Analysis Case Interview Interviews System 144

Peter Stark

JANUARY 30, 2018

Meet with the leader to discuss how they perceive their leadership and what they believe others would say about their leadership, communication, and performance management style. Conduct one-on-one interviews. Use interviews and surveys to assess progress. Administer a 360 Leadership Development Assessment.

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Turnaround Survey Leadership Interviews 34

Peter Stark

OCTOBER 13, 2019

Of the many surveys our firm has conducted, we have learned that people may join an organizations,but they absolutely leave because of the relationship they have with their managers. One employee we were interviewing told us that working at his corporation was almost like a religious experience.

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Survey Turnaround Leadership Interviews 38

Harvard Business

JULY 27, 2016

” Little did I know that over the next 10 years I’d be part of the biggest corporate turnaround in global history. Before we would grant interviews to top executives or send out products for review, we made sure that every reporter, influencer, or analyst had a hands-on product briefing. Be hands on.

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Turnaround Media Report Productivity 28

ConsultX

AUGUST 10, 2021

A one-stop turnaround plan, Conquer the Chaos lays out a complete path to make your business run smoothly and provide you with the freedom you desire. Goldratt and Jeff Cox Summary: Written in a fast-paced thriller style, The Goal, a gripping novel, is transforming management thinking throughout the world. But take heart!

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Consulting Small Business Video Ethics 52

Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

in Management Consulting. Value Partners Management Consulting. Accenture is a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company. Applied Value offers strategy, finance, and operations management services. Definitions. Helpful Links. List of strategy consulting firms in Hong Kong 2011.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 11, 2017

We interviewed roughly 30 LCPs to get a sense of how this new role is shaping up. As LCPs have proven their ability to transform the talent practices of the PE firm to the fund’s managing partners, they’re then tasked with doing the same for portfolio companies. The LCP’s Role in the PE Firm.

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Leadership Talent Culture Turnaround 28

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 17, 2016

You accept your first job as a manager in a fast growth tech company, thinking: “How much different could this be from my former company—a financial services firm? Management is management, right?” How talent management is changing. We then interviewed more than a dozen U.S.

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Talent Culture Turnaround Interviews 28

Harvard Business

MAY 30, 2016

When I was heading Organization and Management Development at Pepsi International, I would encourage our international executives to study local comedy shows. The research involved conducting and coding 88 in-depth behavioral event interviews of leading change with 65 leaders, spread across multiple industries and from across five continents.

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Culture Turnaround Interviews Hotels 28

CaseInterview.com

JULY 23, 2019

I also am including my response where I elaborate on the role of determination in obtaining a consulting management offer. I wanted to take this opportunity to thank you for your immense help, encouragement and guidance throughout my case interview preparation process. After our LOMS session things really turned around for me.

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Oliver Wyman Interviews Case Interview Recruiting 45

Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 3, 2011

in Management Consulting. Cambridge Strategic Management Group. Cambridge Strategic Management Group. Cedar Management Consulting. Accenture is a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company. List of strategy consulting firms in London 2011. List of strategy consulting firms in London.

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Harvard Business

MAY 4, 2016

And on the rare occasions when you do land an interview, you stumble over questions about what you’d bring to the hiring company and why you’re the perfect fit. So how can you make your resume, profile, and interview more effective? How to Get the Most Out of an Informational Interview. Interviews.

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Resumes Interviews Cover Letters Recruiting 28

Harvard Business

MARCH 12, 2018

Volvo’s turnaround over the last decade offers a great example. “Technically, cars today are very different from ten years ago,” says Sällström, whom we interviewed for our book, Talent Wins. Developing what we call an “M&A strategy for talent” is one way to overcome this.

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Talent Engineering Case Interview Turnaround 28

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

In fact, management consultancy Bain & Co. Since 2009 we have interviewed and surveyed 181 executives who run PE-owned companies, as well as eight to 15 people who work with each of these 181 executives (supervisors, board members, director reports, and others). Morale was terrible, and important initiatives were flagging.

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Company Engineering Turnaround System 28

Harvard Business

APRIL 4, 2016

While the focus in recent years on giving more support to onboarding managers and executives unquestionably has produced excellent results – such as reduction in new-hire failure rates from 40% to 10%-15% in many companies – the problem of ineffective inboarding has been ignored. Why dangerous?

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Turnaround Chemicals Study Company 28

Buzzsprout

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Every monthly plan comes with unlimited podcast hosting with Buzzsprout and a guaranteed 48-hour turnaround time. The Pro Podcast team has eight audio editors, two show notes writers, two project managers, a graphic artist, a transcriptionist, podcast launch specialists, and 14 voiceover artists.

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Productivity Company Engineering Turnaround 52

CaseInterview.com

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

The stories below are from readers who have successfully landed their first management consulting offer. But for me, I had a full day of interviews and the PST (first and final rounds combined). I had 12 situations prepared and in each interview did one in full and used elements of others.

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Case Interview McKinsey Interviews Oliver Wyman 40

CaseInterview.com

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

In the case interview process for McKinsey, one of the early evaluations is “Solve,” McKinsey’s digital assessment game (formerly called the McKinsey Problem Solving Game). McKinsey’s digital assessment game Solve is a video game in which candidates problem-solve to manage some form of ecological situation.

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McKinsey How To Data Strategy 52

Harvard Business

JULY 20, 2016

I’ve interviewed thousands of candidates for managerial roles and tracked the performance of those I successfully hired. I led the global management appraisal practice of our own executive search firm, Egon Zehnder. However, only one of its senior managers had worked in more than a single business line.

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Turnaround Engineering Leadership Case Interview 28

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

As a school leader sets off on this journey, how do they know what to do, when to do it, who to listen to, and how to manage critics along the way? Our study of the actions and impact of 411 leaders of UK academies found that only 62 of them managed their turnaround successfully and sustainably transformed their school.

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Research Study Education Recruiting 28

Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

He developed a three-year plan for his turnaround vision, which was translated into annual and quarterly operating plans, and biquarterly responsibilities for his executive team. ” Many CEOs in our interviews emphasized the importance of choosing the right metrics to support both/and decision making. Has something changed?’

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