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Long-form essays, field notes, and frameworks from the FIRMSconsulting team — published weekly.
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Digital & IT Strategy Study
Digital & IT Strategy Study A corporate strategy and digital team helps a major national insurance company determine how to change their business model as customers demand real time premium adjustments and risk calculations based on data from iPhone, iWatch Apps, Fitbit etc. Insurance used to be a steady, boring and very profitable business. It…
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The Turnaround & Restructuring Engagement
The Turnaround & Restructuring Engagement In this study we help a state-owned entity that is essentially dying and preparing for a future where it possibly does not exist. Despite numerous consulting studies since the early 1990’s to prepare for a dystopian postal future ravaged with the scourge of email and the rise of nimble upstarts…
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Big Data & Machine Learning Strategy Study
Big Data & Machine Learning Strategy Study We help an energy giant develop the national disease management strategy for one particularly costly and burdensome disease. To learn more about this study , read the excellent work of David Matheson. Matheson is the now retired BCG senior partner who pioneered a more data intensive way to…
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Implementation of an Operations Strategy
Implementation of an Operations Strategy Work with an implementation team helping one of the world’s most profitable and largest aluminium smelters improve profits and production by implementing a new operations strategy. The parent company has divested under-performing upstream (mining) assets during the recession and is relying on the downstream (processing) businesses, like the smelters, to…
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(Re) Building a Consulting Practice
(Re) Building a Consulting Practice In this series we follow Michael, when in his mid-20s, as a senior associate, he changed offices and led the turnaround of the strategy practice across multiple weaker offices by first rebuilding one office’s stature on the back of a landmark operations engagement. It was scary, difficult and no one…
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Building an Electric Car Startup
Building an Electric Car Startup With Richard, a recent ex-MBB consultant and Firmsconsulting Case Coaching Alum, we co-launch an start-up to build an electric car. We are attempting to build a real automotive business. We are attempting to establish all the technology and infrastructure that decision entails. As we encourage clients to pursue significant goals,…
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How to Reboot a Stalled Career
How to Reboot a Stalled Career The steps and strategies we use to accelerate the careers of clients in our executive coaching program. Bhavin was a 36 yr old EMBA graduate from a NE USA Top-10 program. He was on an H1B visa, with 2 kids and a wife. Having unsuccessfully pursued McKinsey during his…
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How to Find A Great Mentor
How to Find A Great Mentor In this program, we discover most ask and are trying to solve the the wrong mentoring question. All the McKinsey, BCG et al partners hosting our programs talk about the incredibly important mentors who shaped their careers. It is a consistent theme. Kevin says that progress to the partnership…
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How to Develop Big Insights
How to Develop Big Insights THE MOST POPULAR PROGRAM ON FC. This approach can be applied to all problems anywhere. It is not limited to strategy, operations etc. Michael became a partner in his late 20s. You can follow every engagement and his detailed journey in Partnership. Memoir, Rebuilding a Consulting Practice and his later…
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How to Become a McKinsey Partner. 1st Time Revealed
How to Become a McKinsey Partner. 1st Time Ever Revealed Kevin P. Coyne, ex-McKinsey partner & Worldwide Strategy Practice Co-Leader, will reveal for the first time the real way to become a McKinsey partner. What does it really take to become a partner at an elite firm like McKinsey? Are brilliant insights sufficient? Do you…
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Kevin P. Coyne teaches Competitive Strategy
Kevin P. Coyne teaches Competitive Strategy Kevin P. Coyne, ex-McKinsey partner & Worldwide Strategy Practice Co-Leader, will reveal the unique approach he used to develop the competitive strategies for over 25 Fortune 500 CEO clients during a storied career at McKinsey & Company. This is the first time he will ever discuss his approach step-by-step…
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Bill Matassoni; ex-McKinsey partner
Bill Matassoni; ex-McKinsey partner A memoir, Marketing Saves the World, and 20-episode documentary, The Bill Matassoni Show, about the strategies to outwit, outplay and outlast the competition. “A swashbuckling adventure!” Every now and then, someone comes along and makes the subject of management both fun and insightful. That’s what Bill Matassoni has done in his…