answer following questions

To undertake this assignment you will need to view information found on the Web sites of a number of management consulting firms. In many instances these firms have a publishing vehicle.  These include:

McKinsey & Co. (www.mckinseyquarterly.com)

Bain & Company (www.bain.com/publications)

Accenture (www.accenture.com/us-en/outlook)

Monitor (www.monitor.com)

The Boston Consulting Group (www.bcgperspectives.com)

This assignment seeks to help you understand the answer to a broader concern and that is, “Where is strategy at from the perspective of management consultants?”

Please answer the following questions:

• For each of the five management consulting firms noted above, please identify four ideas or issues that they are actively selling to potential clients. Focus your efforts on identifying North American issues. Summarize each in two or three sentences.
• Are there any common ideas that are being highlighted across two or more of the firms? If so what are they?
• In your own words, and using no less than 250 words to do so, please comment on how each of these journals is different from the others in the types of insight that they offer.

Hint: Management consulting firms sell advice. The web sites of these firms are important vehicles for building awareness of the advice or ideas that each seeks to sell. Each firm labels its ideas through different means. Some may place articles or book excerpts written by their employees on their web site. Others may feature a section labeled “issues” or “big ideas.” Regardless of how the ideas are communicated, it is your task to identify the ideas that are currently hot or topical.

Please limit your response to this assignment to three and one half single spaced, typed pages. Cite your sources in the text and please reference them at the end of your assignment. End your write–up with one paragraph that summarizes what you think is the importance of this assignment.