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About Consulting Management Simplified
Whether you are a manager, a business owner or a consultant facing hard problems at work, this book gives you the method to solve them with clarity.
It walks you through the whole consulting approach, from framing and diagnosing a problem to choosing and presenting the answer and delivering it. It covers 35 frameworks used by top consulting firms, each with a worked example and a worksheet.
Covering analysis, decisions, communication and delivery, it helps you think and act like a consultant in any business situation. With worked cases and ready-to-use worksheets, it becomes the guide you open every time a new problem lands.
“Whenever Toyota defines a specification, it is establishing a hypothesis that is then tested through action.”H. Kent Bowen and Steven Spear, 1999 · Chapter 35
“Every time you see a 50-page work plan that stretches out to three months, you know it’s wrong.”Charles Conn, 2019 · Chapter 3
“A good decision executed well often beats a brilliant one implemented poorly.”Paul Rogers and Marcia Blenko, 2006 · Chapter 31
“All products eventually become either cash cows or pets.”Bruce Henderson, 1970 · Chapter 17
Table of contents 
- Part 1: Think Like a Consultant
- What Consultants Actually Do
- The Consultant's Mindset
- The 6-Step Problem-Solving Process
- MECE: No Gaps, No Overlaps
- Issue Trees and Hypothesis Trees
- SWOT Analysis, Done Properly
- PESTLE: The Forces Outside Your Walls
- Porter's Five Forces
- Market Sizing: TAM, SAM and SOM
- The Value Chain
- KPI Trees: Break Any Number Into Its Drivers
- Root Cause Analysis: Five Whys and the Fishbone
- The 80/20 Rule in Practice
- Cost Analysis: Where the Money Really Goes
- Process Mapping and Bottlenecks
- Generating Options With Structure
- The Ansoff and BCG Matrices
- Prioritizing: RICE and Weighted Scoring
- Risk: What Could Go Wrong, and What to Do About It
- Test Before You Commit: Hypotheses and Pilots
- SCQA: Frame Any Problem in Four Lines
- The Pyramid Principle: Answer First
- Building a Business Case
- The One-Page Recommendation
- Handling Tough Questions in the Room
- The Business Model Canvas
- Strategic Roadmaps: Now, Next, Later
- Pricing Strategy: Value and Tiers
- Scaling: What Breaks as You Grow
- Leading Change: Kotter's Eight Steps
- From Recommendation to Action Plan
- Choosing a Delivery Method: Agile, Scrum, Kanban and Gantt
- Stakeholder Mapping and Alignment
- Tracking Results: KPIs and OKRs
- Continuous Improvement: PDCA, Kaizen and Lean
Part 2: Read the Environment
Part 3: Find the Real Problem
Part 4: Build and Test the Options
Part 5: Make the Case
Part 6: Strategy and Growth
Part 7: Make It Happen
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