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Long-form essays, field notes, and frameworks from the FIRMSconsulting team — published weekly.
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Why Value Chain Analysis is at the Core of Strategy Consulting
Strategy is an integrated set of activities to help companies achieve a sustainable competitive advantage and value chain analysis is a tool to help companies determine such set of activities.
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Wendy Suzuki on improving cognitive performance
Michael and Dr. Wendy Suzuki, a neuroscientist and a professor of Neural Science and Psychology at New York University, discuss Wendy’s recent book entitled Healthy Brain, Happy Life.
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Bill Graca, Management Consultant at a boutique consulting firm
In this video documentary you will spend some time with a great client of over 4 years, Bill Graca, and his wonderful family. Bill is a management consultant at a boutique consulting firm and discusses his career journey. He talks about the way he has used Firmsconsulting content to both improve his work for clients and the community, and help his…
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Failure to launch
This is what we call failure to launch. It is the mental barrier we create where we convince ourselves we are just not ready and not good enough.
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Digital Strategy: what is it
Digital strategy today means moving from B2B to B2C. It is not, and neither is it about building apps. This is a way to think about digital strategy.
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Psychological barriers
Let’s talk about one of psychological barriers that keep many of FC members back. I will call it “potential debt.”
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Career strategies to avoid
Today I would like to offer you some thoughts as you think through your career strategy. Specifically here are 6 career strategies you should avoid.
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Lifelong learning mindset
Lifelong learning mindset is a big commitment. There is no formal prize like a degree when you are reading about strategy problem-solving in your free time or learning to build data bases for big data on a weekend.
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How to get permission to be heard
Have you ever been in a discussion and had an important and useful idea to share but found the audience shutting you down or ignoring you? Often you just do not have the audience’s permission to be heard.
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How I developed skills that matter to clients?
Big 4 country leader talks about how over the last 4-5 years he developed skills that helped him raise the bar 10 times higher and significantly accelerate his career progression.
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Can a functional partner lead the strategy workshop over a sector partner?
In this article we will address the question whether a functional partner should lead a strategy workshop over a sector partner.
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How to Set Transformative Career Goals/ Life Goals
Today we discuss setting life goals/career goals, and how to make sure you go for a home run.