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This is the #4 course in the specialization on management consulting. Management consultants are quick learners. When you first join a generalist consulting firm, you are expected to learn core consulting skills and will likely be staffed on projects across industry and functions. You might be on a chemicals pricing project, then a retail cost-reduction project. It’s critical that you learn “how to get smart quickly” and ask smart questions. At the same time, you should develop an armory of tools to create data through client interviews, surveys, benchmarking, and observations.

Status: Management Consulting
Status: Microsoft Excel
BeginnerCourse7 hours

Featured reviews

AB

5.0Reviewed Nov 19, 2025

Benchmarking beautifully explained. It was a learning for me, though I have been doing it in bits and pieces in my career. The last 2 sessions on Excel were wonderful. Thanks Dr John.

AG

5.0Reviewed Nov 27, 2024

Such an amazing course that ive gained alot and enless of knowlage out of it , thanks John for the great matrials , examples and resourses in the course

MK

5.0Reviewed Jul 20, 2023

John has been explaining the course in such a way that easy to understand, fun, while giving insight into what consulting about.

CP

5.0Reviewed Oct 11, 2024

Great insights and value provided by Professor Kim from his real world experience in the field of management consulting.

UA

5.0Reviewed Jul 6, 2025

Very helpful for me entering into the new consulting world. The tools and tricks taught here is very helpful in my early journey in the field.

B

5.0Reviewed Nov 7, 2022

I truly enjoyed the course. Mr Kim is simply the best instructor I have met. His method of teaching leaves one with imprint memory never to forget.Thanks so much

AG

5.0Reviewed Mar 16, 2024

A very interesting course. John made it very interesting and simple. I learned a lot and I am glad I took this course with Mr. John

MS

5.0Reviewed Jun 1, 2023

I like the structure of the courses and Dr. Kim just makes it enjoyable to attend! keep up the good work hoping to see other new courses :)

SG

5.0Reviewed Mar 2, 2024

The exercise on profiling a company really opened my eyes on ways to quickly getting smart on a company and its positioning within an industry. Great course!

AP

5.0Reviewed Sep 4, 2022

This was an excellent course on how to quickly prepare for any project and how to get smart quick. I really appreciated how easy to follow this course was.

VM

5.0Reviewed Mar 7, 2024

Love the instructor's presentation style. Most of the content in this course was new to me, so I appreciated all the examples. Lots of useful information.

SV

5.0Reviewed Jul 14, 2024

This course is full of amazing strategy and analysis tools and shows how to get "smart" on clients and industry. Highly recommended!

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