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Accenture & Booz Allen comparison |
| Message Name: |
Strategy |
| Date Posted: |
01/18/2006 |
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Much of the criticism on this baord seems directed toward TB, on which I cannot comment. That's a shame but bound to happen w/ an company of 12,000 employees. That's one of the disadvantages of size, growth, etc.
Regarding your question on CB, I can't imagine working anywhere else. Our work is heavily in what you would consider "pure strategy" (despite what another poster mentioned, there is still a very large mkt for this).
1. We do both corporate and business unit strategy consisting of:
- mkt analysis/due diligence
- new product strategy
- m&a strategy
- alliance strategy
2. We also do org and change leadership consisting of:
- org design and governance
- performance mgmt
- sales force and channel design
3. We do standard ops stuff:
- purchasing and supply-chain mgmt
- outsourcing strat
- process improvement
4. Finally, we do marketing stuff:
- CRM
- branding
- pricing
Our mix is about 30% #1, 30% #2, and 20% #3 and #4. M/B are maybe 50% #1 -- that's the only difference.
Team culture has been great so far. Everyone comes from top bschools, so you get what you'd expect from such feeders -- bright, driven, team-oriented people. We also have PhDs and experienced hires -- also wonderful to work with though maybe less team-oriented. |
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My guess is that only about 20% of what WCB is the type of "pure strategy" work that would look familiar as such to someone from BCG or Monitor. Here I refer to work where general strategic methodologies and data analysis are applied to create new insight that drives the agenda of a client, as opposed to using the indutry-specific experience of senior team members to guide that agenda.
Another 50% is strategy-based transformation work which has at its core a lot of strategic thinking, but which involves a lot of complex design and implementation work. So while SBT has strategy as it's core, most of the work team members will actually do is not strategic in nature.
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