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An alphabetical index of all published articles on this website.
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- ABC – The evolution of Asset Based Consulting
- ABCD Model Of Leading With Trust
- Action Priority Matrix – Identify the right opportunities to pursue
- ADKAR – A model for personal and organizational change
- AIM Framework – Build compelling artefacts
- Airbnb Business Model
- 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 – How 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?
- Blake & Mouton Managerial Grid
- Blue Ocean Strategy – How to create uncontested markets?
- BLUF – How to communicate effectively and persuasively?
- Blumler and Katz Uses and Gratifications Theory
- 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
- Bureaucracy – Six Principles Of Max Weber
- Business Model Canvas
- 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
- Consolidation Endgame Curve
- Controlled failure – Fail now to succeed later
- Conway’s Law
- 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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- D’Aveni’s 7s Hypercompetition Model
- Data Accessibility
- Data Fabric
- Data Governance
- Data Governance Maturity Model
- Data Management
- Data Munging – tips to boost productivity
- Data Onboarding
- Data Platform
- Data Quality
- Data Security
- Data Stewardship
- 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
- Delta Model
- Denominator Neglect
- Diamond Model – How to assess nations’ competitiveness?
- DICE – A framework to appraise change initiatives
- Differentiation
- DiSC – Understand your leadership style
- Doordash Business Model
- DuckDuckGo – How does it make money?
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- Elaboration Likelihood Model – A theory of persuasion
- Elephant And The Rider Change Framework
- Enterprise Agile Frameworks – An overview
- Escalation of Commitment – When to pull the plug?
- Etsy Business Model
- Executive Presence – Why should consultants develop one?
- Expectation Effect – How to change perceptions?
- External Factor Evaluation (EFE) for competitive analysis
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- Factfulness – A must read for all consultants
- Factfulness – An overview of human instincts
- FAIR Data Principles
- 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
- Forward Integration
- Four Corners Model of competitive strategy
- Four Phases – What is the lifecycle of Strategy?
- Four Quadrants Of Growth
- 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
- GE-McKinsey Nine Box Matrix
- GitHub Business Model
- Glassdoor Business Model
- 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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- Halo Effect – How does it affect your professional life?
- Headstand – How to find ideas through problem reversal?
- Heinrich Law and industrial safety
- Hofstede’s Cultural Dimensions
- Horn Effect – How does it affect your professional life?
- Hoshin Kanri – Drive strategy across the organization
- How should you price a product?
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- Icons – Give your presentations a face-lift
- IDEO DFV Method – How to build compelling offerings?
- IFE Analysis
- IKIGAI – Is consulting your calling?
- Impostor Syndrome
- Industry Cost Curve
- Influence Mapping – Understanding power distribution
- Information – How do consultants quickly ramp up?
- Informed Opinion – Consultants, take a position
- Innovation Management – Why is it important?
- Innovation Management Strategy – How to formulate one?
- Intention-Action Gap
- 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?
- Master Data
- Master Data Management
- 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
- Metadata
- 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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- Palantir Business Model
- 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?
- Peloton – How does it make money?
- Penguin Effect – How consultants facilitate action
- People pleasing – How to enhance your own self-esteem
- PERMA+ Model – How It Benefits Businesses?
- 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
- Profit Pools – Manage for profits, NOT revenues
- 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 shape performance?
- Pyramid Principle
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- RAPID – How to make strategic decisions?
- RBV – What is a resource-based view of strategy?
- Red Queen Effect in competitive strategy
- Revenue Model – Strategies for eCommerce platforms
- RICE – How to prioritize features?
- Robinhood – How does it make money?
- Rogers’ Five factors – How to appraise innovations?
- Ryanair – How does it make money?
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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?
- Snapchat Business Model
- 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
- SpaceX Business Model
- 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 – How to ace behavioral interviews?
- Star Model – How to design organizations?
- 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?
- Systems Theory Of Management
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- TAM / SAM / SOM – How to properly size the market?
- The Black Swan Model
- 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?
- TikTok Business Model
- TOM – What is a Target Operating Model?
- TQM – How to gain competitive advantage through quality?
- Transactional Data
- Triple Bottom Line
- Turnitin – Company analysis & business model
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- Value – How to communicate your worth as a consultant?
- Value – What do consulting firms really deliver?
- Value Chain Analysis
- Value Innovation – How to construct a Blue Ocean strategy?
- Value Net – A framework for strategic alliances
- Vertical Integration
- Virtue Signaling
- VoC – What is Voice of the Customer?
- Voice of the Customer (VoC)
- VRIO – A resource-based framework for sustained competitive advantage
- VUCA – How should consultants handle this?
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- Wayfair Business Model
- 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?
- What is Thought Leadership?