One of the most searched terms in the consulting industry is ‘management consulting certificates’. We thought we would clear this one up. Broadly speaking, there is no such thing. Where accounting has its ACA (Associated Chartered Accountant), law has the GDL (Graduate Diploma in Law) and LPC (Legal Practice Course) and other financial services have …

Most consultants work long hours and travel all the time. You spend a huge amount of your time actually spent in your client’s location, often working in weird, frustrating places.    Clients tend to hide consultants in peculiar side-rooms to minimize distraction. You need to be ready with the following 5 pieces of kit! These …

Consultants spend a lot of time on Excel.  But what exactly are they doing? They are arranging and analysing a company’s data.  Often this is disorderly, poorly formatted and littered with formulaic errors.  The firm probably never thought lots of this info would be important.  Consultants often find that it was no-one’s job to manage …

So, you like the sound of the other posts on the blog and want to get into consulting? Well, it’s easier said than done. The cut for consulting is more severe than pretty much any other profession. In this article, My Consulting Coach bring you some top tips. Top firms start with an exceptional applicant …

There are plenty of resources out there about the pros and cons of consulting.  Perhaps more on the pro-side.  Here, we want to offer some of what we think are the downsides and hard truths about working as a consultant.  One of the biggest issues in a consultancy is the un-diverse educational background.  The hiring habits …

James is now a coach at Case Coach after working for 3 years at BCG.  How did you find the management consulting lifestyle? There is no doubt that the management consulting lifestyle is extremely challenging, but also exciting. You workhard and are expected to meet very high levels of performance at all times.But you get to …

The biggest criticism of consultants is that they aren’t actually all that intelligent and creative.  Really, they’re just very good at following instructions.  Frameworks Firstly, anyone familiar with the industry will know the myriad frameworks used for solving cases.  These include Porters’ Five Forces or the 4Ps, which can be applied to multiple scenarios. Most …

In this article, we look at the future of consulting. Its latest developments, approaches and broadly, what the future holds for strategy consulting. Before the last ten years, consulting firms had worked in the same way for a long time.  They recruited talented generalists who worked on all kinds of strategy and operations projects.  Recently, this …

When consultants talk about their work, they talk in terms of “added value”.  It is the life-blood of what they do. It is the reason they exist! But how could at it are they really? “Value added” is usually a numerical value, like revenue or profit.  Consultants back this up with qualitative change, like an …