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 ( ) Accenture (www.accenture.com/us-en/outlook) Monitor ( ) The Boston Consulting Group ( ) 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: : 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 writeup with one paragraph that summarizes what you think is the importance of this assignment.
