The Strategy Journal: Learn the skills used by the leading management consulting firms, such as McKinsey, BCG, et al. Paperback

The Strategy Journal is a life long reference for management consultants. The book just not teaches the frameworks, it also builds the value and belief system that is core to any consultant. This book's key differentiator is that the whole journey is mapped today and week wise learning path, with such design you not only build the knowledge of the framework, you also build hos to use and when to use the frameworks.It is true to be the statement that :This is not a diary, calendar, or planner. This is a Journal built for those who want to do the work, for those who want to solve complex business problems. It is a daily tool that helps you ask the right questions, collect the right data, conduct the right analyses, communicate the right findings, influence your colleagues to act, and know what needs to be done at each stage of the study to produce a truly unique solution that solves the original problem. The Journal is there to guide you. It is the tool you will use all the time.

The Strategy Journal is a highly perceptive book that analyzes intriguing questions about strategies in business. The book outlines an ambitious objective and redefines how a consultant should construct a strategic plan.Kris Safarova begins with a broad definition of strategy and concludes it “as choosing the right business objective and the steps to achieve that business objective.” Safarova broadens that definition by outlining the steps and planning involved in creating well defined strategy. There is a hands-on guide to creating a strategic plan by following the storyboard to convert the hypothesis into a workable analysis. This book seems to be a guide, and following the steps outlined, a strategic consultant can improve the profitability of their company, understand market structure, customers, competitors, culture, investments by answering questions posed within the book. If implemented correctly, this guide can serve as a successful tool to testing a hypothesis and should be mandatory reading for market research novices. It’s a welcome addition to reference libraries and those responsible for making complex, strategic decisions to get the desired result.“This approach naturally creates an implementation road map, accelerates implementation, and makes implementation easier.”The inclusion of a dedicated area for notes, prompts readers to purchase the printed version of this e-book and I highly recommend readers add the physical copy to their shelves. The templates provided are invaluable and The Strategy Journal is composed at a high savvy level. Accordingly, it is suitable for strategists, academicians, and understudies, yet not too advanced for the average reader.

Soy consultor y este libro puede ayudar a consultores en todos los niveles. Me encanta la metodología paso a paso y los tips que dan!

This book is an excellent resource, and something that can be used on a daily basis. It's a bit of a different take from their previous books, but provides a very practical overview and example of the application of the critical thinking, storytelling, analysis and strategy development process. The guided example is engaging and direct, something that many books, let alone even corporate training struggles to achieve.What the strategy journal allows readers and users to do is to adapt the methods and process to their own type of work, whether in consulting or an industry position. Furthermore being able to flip back and forth between the guided example and templates/tools will be truly valuable moving forwards.

This is a great pocket guide that helps with structuring problems and communicating solutions to the client.It helps you make sure you are doing what is worth doing, for the right reasons, and maximizing the impact you have in a project, while still doing it within the typically tight deadlines in these types of project.It has explanations, templates, timelines and guided examples of everything you should do in a consulting project for it to be impactful and efficient.In summary, it's a step by step guide for problem solving in consulting projects that is as tangible and specific as possible without compromising broad applicability and exhaustiveness.Great resource to refer to when working on projects!

The Journal offers practical tools to manage strategy projects. Taken all together, these tools can represent a project management methodology. The parts I find the most interesting are the sections about customers update, especially how they are used to sell further projects.