Module - Strategy from the viewpoint of management consultants
Objectives
The aim of this assignment is to suggest the role played by Management Consulting firms in developing new ideas useful to managers, academics, students and others interested in strategic management.
Assignment
To undertake this assignment you will need to view information found on the Web sites of a number of management consulting firms. In many instances these firms have a publishing vehicle. These include:
McKinsey & Co. (www.mckinseyquarterly.com)
Bain & Company (www.bain.com/publications)
Accenture (www.accenture.com/us-en/outlook)
Monitor (www.monitor.com)
The Boston Consulting Group (www.bcgperspectives.com)
This assignment seeks to help you understand the answer to a broader concern and that is, "Where is strategy at from the perspective of management consultants?"
Please answer the following questions.
• For each of the five management consulting firms noted above, please identify four ideas or issues that they are actively selling to potential clients. Focus your efforts on identifying North American issues. Summarize each in two or three sentences.
• Are there any common ideas that are being highlighted across two or more of the firms? If so what are they?
• In your own words, and using no less than 250 words to do so, please comment on how each of these journals is different from the others in the types of insight that they offer.