Comments on: Wikipedia on strategic management http://kimwarren.com/strategy/wikipedia-on-strategic-management/ with Kim Warren Sat, 17 Jul 2010 15:26:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Kim Warren http://kimwarren.com/strategy/wikipedia-on-strategic-management/#comment-562 Kim Warren Tue, 09 Dec 2008 09:32:27 +0000 http://www.kimwarren.com/?p=312#comment-562 I don't mean to understate the extremely smart work and awesome industry intelligence that the big consulting firms bring to bear - often way beyond what individual firms cope ever achieve. It's also certain that they have developed powerful methods and procedures of their own for tackling their clients' strategic challenges. My problem is with the tools of strategy themselves. You're right that there's nothing magical about 'the MBA' to make this qualification essential to all who work in strategy consulting firms .. but that's too is because there's little professional value in any of the MBA course content on strategy, as recruiters from these top firms frequently remark. I don’t mean to understate the extremely smart work and awesome industry intelligence that the big consulting firms bring to bear – often way beyond what individual firms cope ever achieve. It’s also certain that they have developed powerful methods and procedures of their own for tackling their clients’ strategic challenges. My problem is with the tools of strategy themselves. You’re right that there’s nothing magical about ‘the MBA’ to make this qualification essential to all who work in strategy consulting firms .. but that’s too is because there’s little professional value in any of the MBA course content on strategy, as recruiters from these top firms frequently remark.

]]> By: loong http://kimwarren.com/strategy/wikipedia-on-strategic-management/#comment-541 loong Mon, 08 Dec 2008 13:52:56 +0000 http://www.kimwarren.com/?p=312#comment-541 Hi, professor. This article reminds me a little problem. Someone say that McKinsey can’t be one of the fortune 500 is because they too much rely on their consults ability, and seems to be that most of the great company, McDonald, GE, they operate mostly by their standard procedures, and that is what makes the company grow large. Company like McKinsey, the way to make more money must to be hiring more intelligence consults, which also bring the more management problems. So, is it possible that when facing the same problem, all consults tends to come up with the same result is the big strategy success for the McKinsey? Is it possible that in the future the consult industry works like this, a group of people doing the standard procedure job, and the staff don’t have to be all MBAs, just the project manager making the big, kinds of hard decisions, and this way could promote the development for consult industry. English is not my native language, so hope that I made my point clear. So, what you see about this? Hi, professor. This article reminds me a little problem. Someone say that McKinsey can’t be one of the fortune 500 is because they too much rely on their consults ability, and seems to be that most of the great company, McDonald, GE, they operate mostly by their standard procedures, and that is what makes the company grow large. Company like McKinsey, the way to make more money must to be hiring more intelligence consults, which also bring the more management problems.

So, is it possible that when facing the same problem, all consults tends to come up with the same result is the big strategy success for the McKinsey? Is it possible that in the future the consult industry works like this, a group of people doing the standard procedure job, and the staff don’t have to be all MBAs, just the project manager making the big, kinds of hard decisions, and this way could promote the development for consult industry.

English is not my native language, so hope that I made my point clear. So, what you see about this?

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