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How Consulting Will Likely Change Because of the Pandemic

Innovation Excellence

The uncertainty unleashed by the pandemic reinforced that strategic thinking is needed more than ever, and clients will continue to pay top dollar for contingency planning, scenario planning, and business strategy. Traditional consulting frameworks, tools, and templates will continue to be commoditized through free resources found on the net.

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Your Strategy Has to Be Flexible — But So Does Your Execution

Harvard Business Review

Action plans and Gantt charts can span many pages in pursuit of precision and concreteness. But where a high degree of uncertainty and change is involved, the value can instead reside in the learning which accompanies execution, whether or not the immediate outcome is successful. Missed learning opportunities.