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- ABC: The evolution of Asset Based Consulting
- Action Priority Matrix: Identify the right opportunities to pursue
- ADKAR: A model for personal and organizational change
- AIM Framework: Build compelling artefacts
- Andon Cord: How Amazon and Netflix use Toyota principles?
- Ansoff Matrix: Understanding firms’ growth options
- Are humans plastic guzzling monsters?
- Are robots taking over our jobs?
- Availability Heuristic: How it affects our judgments?
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- Bandwagon Effect: How consultants can facilitate change
- BANI: A new framework to make sense of a chaotic world?
- BCG Advantage Matrix: How to source insights to develop Strategy?
- BCG Growth-Share Matrix
- BCG Rule of Three and Four: How to understand markets?
- Bench time: How to make the most of it?
- Benchmarking: Comparing with peers to improve performance
- Berkus model: How to value pre-revenue start-ups?
- Blue Ocean Strategy: How to create uncontested markets?
- BLUF: How to communicate effectively and persuasively?
- Bowman’s Strategic Clock: How to position your product?
- Box plot in Dataset Visualization
- Brainstorming: How to develop new ideas as a team?
- BSC: What is a Balanced Scorecard?
- Budget Cuts: How to handle this situation as a consultant?
- Bumble: How does it make money?
- Bump chart in Data Visualization
- Business Plan: How to develop a good one?
- Business Strategy: What is it and why develop one?
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- CAGE: What to consider when entering a new market?
- Case Method: How should MBAs prepare for a case study?
- CATWOE: How to assess the influence of stakeholders’ viewpoint?
- Checklists: Why should you use them as a consultant?
- Choice Architecture
- Choiceology: Overconfidence effect & hindsight bias
- Circular Flow of Income
- Cohort Analysis using layer-cake graphs
- Comparable Transactions: Valuation based on industry cohorts
- Competitive Analysis and Positioning
- Competitive Profile Matrix (CPM): A tool for rivals analysis
- Controlled failure: Fail now to succeed later
- Cornell Method: A method to take great notes
- Corporate Strategy: What is it and why develop one?
- Cost Advantage
- Crisis: How to turn around an engagement?
- CRISP-DM: A framework for Data Mining & Analysis
- Crossing the Chasm: Technology adoption lifecycle
- Cultural Web: A model to align culture with strategy
- Customer Journey Maps: How to deliver compelling experiences?
- Customer Obsession: How to excel at client relationships?
- Cynefin Framework: Between chaos and order
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- Data Munging – tips to boost productivity
- Data Onboarding
- Data Storytelling
- Data Visualization: History and origins
- Data Visualization: Materials you should absolutely read
- Decision Trees: A robust decision-making framework
- Decoy effect and irrational behaviour
- Delphi Technique: Achieving consensus through experts
- Diamond Model: How to assess nations’ competitiveness?
- DICE: A framework to appraise change initiatives
- Differentiation
- DiSC: Understand your leadership style
- DuckDuckGo: How does it make money?
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- Factfulness: A must read for all consultants
- Factfulness: An overview of human instincts
- Fear Instinct: How should consultants handle this instinct?
- Finding the right pricing strategy
- First Mover Advantage: How to dominate a market?
- Fishbone Diagram: How to find the root cause of issues?
- Flywheel Effect: How to build an exceptional business?
- Focus Strategy
- FOMO: Get over it and focus on important stuff
- Four Corners Model of competitive strategy
- Four Phases: What is the lifecycle of Strategy?
- FUD: How should consultants overcome fear, uncertainty and doubt?
- Functional strategy: What is it and why develop one?
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- Gap Analysis: What is it and how to conduct one?
- Gap in the market: How to exploit opportunities?
- Gap Instinct: How should consultants overcome this bias?
- GE McKinsey Matrix
- Golem Effect: How to degrade performance?
- Greiner Curve – management capability framework
- Groupthink: How to avoid it?
- Guesstimates: Approach for market sizing cases
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- Icons: Give your presentations a face-lift
- IFE Analysis
- IKIGAI: Is consulting your calling?
- Impostor Syndrome
- Influence Mapping: Understanding power distribution
- Information: How do consultants quickly ramp up?
- Informed Opinion: Consultants, take a position
- Innovation Management Strategy: How to formulate one?
- Innovation Management: Why is it important?
- Internal Analysis
- Internal Consultants: How are they different?
- Invent & Simplify: How to stay ahead of the curve?
- IT Governance: Why should enterprises pay attention?
- IT Strategy: Why is it important?
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- Management Structure
- Maslow’s Hierarchy: How to understand human behavior?
- MBA: Inspirations you may gather from business school
- MBO: What is Management by objectives?
- MBTI: Understand your personality type
- McKinsey’s Influence Model of Leading Change
- MECE Framework
- Meeting minutes: make yourself indispensable
- Mindful Listening: Why should consultants master this art?
- Mindmap: A tool for creativity & structured thinking
- Mintzberg’s 5Ps: How to define strategy?
- MOOCs: How to successfully finish a MOOC course?
- MoSCoW Principle
- Motivation: Why choose the consulting profession?
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- Obeya: Toyota’s war rooms shape strategies
- OGSM: How to rally teams around shared organizational vision?
- OKR: How to execute strategy?
- OLI: A framework for international expansion
- OODA: How to make faster decisions?
- Operational Strategy: What is it and why develop one?
- Origins: How did strategy evolve through history?
- Ownership: How to enhance your client accountability?
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- PARC Framework
- Pareto Principle: Do more with less
- Parking Lot: Use it to run effective workshops
- Parkinsons Law
- PARTS: An approach towards strategic alliances
- PASTOR: A Framework for compelling proposals
- PechaKucha: How to deliver engaging presentations?
- Penguin Effect: How consultants facilitate action
- People pleasing: How to enhance your own self-esteem
- Personal Construct Theory: How to shape constructs?
- PESTLE Analysis
- PICK Chart: Effective brainstorming tool for consultants
- PIE: The next generation of Porter’s Five Forces
- Podcasts: Knowledge on the move
- Pomodoro Technique: How to manage your time as a consultant?
- Porter’s Five Forces
- Power: Understand, leverage and influence outcomes
- Practice Resources: Sample Consulting Case Studies
- Promotion: Managers, Consultants & Biases
- Pros-and-Cons: An approach for decision-making
- Prospect Theory
- Provenance Paradox: The brand of origin
- Pugh Matrix: How to use criteria in evaluating alternatives?
- Pygmalion Effect: How to exact superior performance?
- Pyramid Principle
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- Satir: A change model from a family therapist
- SCAMPER: Framework for ideation & brainstorming
- Scatter Plots: Visualising two different numeric variables
- Scenario planning: How to plan for uncertainties?
- SCQA Logic
- Selective Perception Marketing: How can Big Data help?
- SERVQUAL: How to compare an organization’s service quality?
- ShuHaRi: Japanese framework to mastery
- SIPOC: A model to analyze organizational processes
- Six Sigma: How to improve quality through statistics?
- SMART: How to set effective goals?
- SOAR Analysis: A tool for strategic planning
- Socratic Method: How can consultants promote client learning?
- SOW: How to write a compelling Statement Of Work?
- SPACE Analysis
- SQVID: How to help clients see your opinions?
- Stakeholder Analysis: Interest – Influence matrix
- Stakeholder Map: Tool for Stakeholder Analysis
- Stakeholder types #1: How to identify self-proponents?
- Stakeholder types #10: How to identify mommy?
- Stakeholder types #11: How to identify pessimist?
- Stakeholder types #2: How to identify jesters?
- Stakeholder types #3: How to identify perfectionists?
- Stakeholder types #4: How to identify introverts?
- Stakeholder types #5: How to identify careerists?
- Stakeholder types #6: How to identify divas?
- Stakeholder types #7: How to identify thieves?
- Stakeholder types #8: How to identify gossipers?
- Stakeholder types #9: How to identify buzzword-bazooka?
- Star Model: How to design organizations?
- STAR: How to ace behavioral interviews?
- Storyboard: How to build compelling presentations?
- Straight-line instinct: Why should consultants take notice?
- Strategic Analysis: How to execute one?
- Strategy Diamond: How do strategic components fit together?
- Straw Man Proposal: Brainstorming, the McKinsey Way
- Streisand Effect: Why should consultants develop PR skills?
- SUCCESS: How to design messages that stick?
- SWOT: How to analyze the business environment?
- Systemic Questionnaire: How do consultants use it?
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- TAM / SAM / SOM: How to properly size the market?
- The Eisenhower Matrix: Get more done..effectively
- The Hedgehog Concept: Fight distractions and sharpen focus
- The IKEA Effect: How to catalyze client ownership?
- The Spotlight Effect: How should consultants handle this?
- TOM: What is a Target Operating Model?
- TQM: How to gain competitive advantage through quality?
- Turnitin: Company analysis & business model
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- Value Chain Analysis
- Value Innovation: How to construct a Blue Ocean strategy?
- Value Net: A framework for strategic alliances
- Value: How to communicate your worth as a consultant?
- Value: What do consulting firms really deliver?
- Virtue Signaling
- VoC: What is Voice of the Customer?
- VRIO: A resource-based framework for sustained competitive advantage
- VUCA: How should consultants handle this?
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- What is a book-to-bill ratio in financial statements?
- What is a fixed price economic price adjustment model?
- What is a fixed price incentive successive targets contract?
- What is a fixed price model?
- What is a fixed price plus incentive contract?
- What is a staff augmentation model?
- What is the difference between a methodology and a framework?