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• Understanding Capgemini’s Consulting Team

• “Should I join Capgemini?”
• Resume and Interview Tips from Oliver Wyman
• Greatest management consulting Guru you probably never heard of!
• Unsung Icon of Management Consulting…Booz & Co.
• McKinsey makes a strategic bet on Nigeria
• Are McKinsey consultants in smaller offices getting worse training?
• Terribly naive story about the state of management consulting
• Friendliest Consultants
• BCG botches effort to take on the McKinsey Quarterly
•  Annual Management Consulting Rankings – 2010/2011
• How Gemini Consulting, the one-time McKinsey killer, shot itself in the foot
• Road Hog: managing the long-hours and excessive travel in management consulting
• “I have a chance to work with ex-McKinsey consultants setting up an internal consulting unit at Bank of America – should I take it?” Be careful what you wish for.
• Oliver Wyman vs. Roland Berger vs. Marakon
• The Essential Guide to Attacking Case Interviews
•  Deloitte Consulting is sued. Marin County hires a dodgy firm to back up its claims against Deloitte
• Vale pressures us to remove documents and story
• What Vale should be doing besides chasing us
•  McKinsey pulls the best Halloween move to scare its competitors
• How can Booz, McKinsey and AD Little all claim to have invented management consulting?
• How the so-called McKinsey Quarterly-Killer, Deloitte Review, died a painful death
• RBS employee bites the head off IT consultants from the Big 4 (Deloitte, PWC, E&Y & KPMG)
• Building a new Middle-Eastern management consulting firm to rival Booz…or is it McKinsey
• “Is Public Sector Management Consulting Work Boring?”
• The Crafty Punit Renjen: The Man with a Plan
• To which McKinsey or Bain office do you apply: New York, Chicago, Sao Paulo, Santiago, London, Dusseldorf, Prague, Moscow, Mumbai, Johannesburg or Dubai?
• Official Proof – McKinsey thinks highly of BCG, Bain and one surprise firm (it’s not who you think), while thumbing its nose at the rest.
• Is Monitor Company passing the buck to Bain & Company?
• Why are there so few female partners in management consulting?
• Excuse me Deloitte, What is “executable strategy”?
• Feng Shui @ BCG and other important thoughts from Dr. Antonella Mei-Pochtler
• Ranking McKinsey, Bain, BCG, Accenture, Deloitte, Capgemini…
• What value do consulting firms like McKinsey, Bain, et al. add to an operation?
• The Best of Bain and Company
• Bain’s advice for Thanksgiving – this is not a joke and you have to see this
• McKinsey in Rumania
• AT Kearney Presentation…say’s a lot about them
• Why did I enter the world of McKinsey, Bain, and the BCG, and become a Management Consultant?
• McKinsey selling cheap and commoditized research through wholly-owned subsidiary, Global Concepts
• A Complete McKinsey Style MECE Decision Tree…done by Booz
• In the Hot Seat with Deloitte Consulting
• Lawyers fight for management consulting work: Should McKinsey, Bain and BCG be scared?
• What do you think this slide is trying to say?
• When a consulting tool misses the point of its existence
• Barf Alert: McKinsey Analyzes to Make you Throw Up
• Comparing McKinsey, Bain, the BCG, Accenture and the other firms…an insider’s guide.
• Don’t let your client down when they need you the most
• Does McKinsey-style advice work for smaller companies?
• What can a sexy image of Katy Perry (not) sell?
• My first engagement was a disaster. Is my consulting career over?
• Distilling the essence of strategic thinking
• What does it take to succeed at a premium consulting firm?
• Insiders Guide to the Major Firms…McKinsey & Co., Bain & Co., The Boston Consulting Group, Accenture, Deloitte Consulting
• Exclusive: What took down Abbey National…it just may have been some spotty consulting advice
• The Time Machine
• Does McKinsey only do strategy work: the difference between strategy, operations and implementation consulting?
• Understanding Deloitte Strategy & Operations

• Monitor Company…should you steer clear?
• BBM is the new MBB
• How Rajat Gupta Came Undone
• McKinsey is no longer the top-ranked management consulting firm!
• A consulting giant’s – Sir Howard Davies – career ends ignominiously due to the Libyan scandal.
• Exclusive: Documents of Monitor Group Developing Libya’s National Security Apparatus
• Monitor admits to assisting with the doctoral thesis for the son of a client – Muammar Qaddafi
• Should Jonathan Day change his Heidrick & Struggles profile?
• Former McKinsey Managing Partner – Rajat Gupta – Accused of Insider Trading
• Is Fiona Czerniawska not heavily conflicted?
• Every management consultant MUST read this…
• Consulting Magazines “Top 25 Consultants” and “Best Firms to Work For” awards are very misleading
• Monitor Company’s Peter Walsh responds to our Criticism…But major inaccuracies remain on the site
• When pissed-off clients are not always a bad thing
• Management Consultants vs. Prostitutes of Knowledge
• Is Deloitte Consulting copying McKinsey & Company?
• Management Consulting Guard…the importance of ethics in management consulting
• Guidance to completing a business case…and delivering the results in a compelling way
• A guide to conducting focus interviews…a necessary management consulting skill
• Change Management…managing it, implementation of new projects and gaining buy-in to new ideas
• PowerPoint versus Word reports…which should you use (Part 2 of 2)
• PowerPoint versus Word reports…which should you use (Part 1 of 2)
• How should you go about researching a business issue before diving in?
• Are your management consulting rates threatened?

BEHIND THE SCENES STORIES

• Behind the Scenes on a BCG Engagement: Liberal arts major building her first economic model
• McKinsey Engagement: Exclusive Behind-the-Scenes Story
• Inside a McKinsey Engagement on Finance
• From Pepsi to Bain: My life as a management consulting star and partner (Part 1)
• My first year at Bain: My life as a management consulting star and partner (Part 2)
• MECE, 80/20 and other Tough Love at Bain: My life as a management consulting star and partner (Part 3)
•  My first Bain project with real responsibility: My life as a management consulting star and partner (Part 4)
• On a tight deadline to turnaround an Eastern European airline: My life as a management consulting star and partner (Part 5)
• Strategy, operations and implementation at consulting firms. My life as a management consulting star and partner (Part 6)
• Day-in-the-life-of studies and more sage advice from Bain. My life as a management consulting star and partner (Part 7)
• McKinsey Petroleum Study…you saw this first here
• Rare insight into a, not-so-rare, screwed up Accenture project
• The History of Bain and Company

SELF ASSESSMENT

• Can you make the transition from the military to management consulting?
• Do experienced hires have a shot at getting into McKinsey, Bain, BCG or Roland Berger?
• “I am a Chartered Accountant (CA). Why am I struggling to get into McKinsey, Bain and BCG?”
• Management consulting firms always ask for “analytical” thinkers. How do you know if you are an analytical thinker?
• I want to work at McKinsey or BCG and specialize in strategy or financial services. Should you and how?
• Why so many people never get an offer, or even an interview, with McKinsey, Bain and the Boston Consulting Group?
• “Do consultants from boutique consulting firms have a reasonable chance of moving up to McKinsey, Bain or the BCG? If so, what does it take?”
• Top Ten Ways to Know You Need a Break From Management Consulting
• Top Ten Ways to Spot an Experienced Strategy Consultant
• Top Ten Things You Will Never Hear From Your Engagement Manager
• Top Ten Things You Should Not Tell Your Client
• Top Ten Things you Should Not Say to Your Engagement Manager.

•  Best MBA to enter Management Consulting is NOT in the USA
• Which Consulting Firms are Hiring & Where (May 2011 Edition)
• Case Preparation Process of an Aspiring Consultant (Part 3)
• Will your resume annoy consultants?
• The True Gate Keepers to BCG, Bain & McKinsey
• Nine Steps to Obliterate a Consulting Case Question
• Guidelines for solving a case…from the experts
• Case Preparation Process of an Aspiring Consultant (Part 2)
• Case Preparation Process of an Aspiring Consultant (Part 1)
• 13 Things you should know about case interviews
• Why consulting case interviews are only half the battle
• Sizing a market…the right way (Psst…spreadsheet attached)
• Reporting from the trenches…
• Understanding MECE – Excerpt from our book
• Framework for answering a McKinsey, Bain or BCG Competitive Strategy Case Interview Question.
• Framework for answering a McKinsey, Bain and BCG data-analyses case interview question.
• Roland Berger needs some consistency in their recruiting and a better marketing department
• Moving from Deloitte or Accenture to the elite firms: McKinsey, Bain & BCG: is it possible and how?
• Are you struggling with McKinsey, Bain or BCG case interview preparation? Here are the common mistakes made when using MECE, decision trees, hypotheses and 80/20 to solve case questions.
• Case Interviews, Case Studies, Brain Teasers and more during the McKinsey/Bain/BCG interview process: Advice from a Placement Coach
• Managing Burnout When Working at a Tier 1 Management Consulting Firm like McKinsey, Bain & BCG
•  Management consulting firms took how long to get back to you!?
• 10 Questions for Aspiring Management Consultants

• Team building exercises with the management consulting team…you may choose to include the client team
• Presenting versus Pre-presenting
• Management Consulting MBA – Download the FULL Course
• Reorganize the organization with this handy 6 page guide
• Learning how to calculate NPV
• Creating the perfect slide
• How do you break into a new client, sector or geography without misleading the client and without prior experience?
• What tools do you need to start as a management consultant?
• Guide to…Tips, Tools, Guidelines and advice for using the Problem Solving in Teams (PSiT) Approach
• Guide to…the Seven-Step Process of the Problem Solving in Teams Approach
• Guide to…Managing an Effective Problem Solving in Teams Meeting
• Guide to…Problem Solving in Teams (PSiT)
• Guide to… Performance Measurement and Benefits Tracking with Score Boards
• Guide to… Creating a War Room!
• Guide to… Performance Measurement and Benefits Tracking with Charters
• Guide to…Different Types of Benefits Calculations
• Guide to…being successful (as a member) of an analyses project
• Guide to…Engagement Logistics Coordination
•  Guide to…Build an End-of-Engagement Document (Engagement Book)
• Guide to…using client employees on your project
• Guide to…Zipping through Tons of Data
• Guide to…Organizing a Visual Mapping Fair
• Guide to…Presenting a Visual Map to Senior Clients in 10 Minutes
• Guide to…Prioritizing Your Work Time
• Guide to…Gaining a Clients Acceptance (Called “Buy-in” in consulting speak)
• Guide to…Quantifying a Benefit you have identified in the Project
• Guide to…”Findings” and how you validate them
• Guide to…Project Design
• Guide to…Analytical Probes
• Guide to…Opportunity Charting
• Guide to…Visually Mapping a Process, Idea or Situation (These are sometimes called, Visual Maps, Project Maps, Process Maps, Brown Papers etc)
• Guide to…Decision Mapping
• Guide to…Day-in-the-life-of (DILO) Studies
• Guide to…Reviewing Initiatives at a Client
• Guide to…Surveys of Organizational Effectiveness
• Guide to…Value Chains
• Guide to…Focus Interviews
• How to pre-research a management consulting topic, assignment, meeting pack etc…
• Guide to setting up management consulting projects…everything you need to know