BCG Acronyms
The full title of someone that is a GPMD.
What is Global Practice Management Director?
There are only 2 elements on the periodic table that start with the letter Z. One is Zirconium and the other is this.
What is zinc?
The year in which BCG was founded.
What is 1963?
This 7-Letter adjective means both dehydrated & too eager for approval
What is Thirsty?
This daily meeting involves the core team: product owners, team members, and the scrum master.
What is the daily standup?
What is a PAL?
It's the lightest stable subatomic particle (that we know about)
What is an electron?
The second BCG office, which opened in 1966, was located in this country.
What is Japan?
The name of this Italian fashion house means "all is well"
What is Kanban?
These engagement surveys have an identical acronym to "Paid Time Off," but the letters actually stand for this.
What is Predictability, Timing, & Open Communication?
These hormones relieve pain but probably don't give the "runner's high" as once thought
What are endorphins?
A former BCG employee that would go on and start his own strategy consulting firm in 1973.
Who is Bill Bain?
It sounds like it means "stolen" but this 8-letter compliment means your style is fierce!
What is snatched?
The Agile Manifesto deems Individuals and Interactions over these two things.
What are Processes & Tools?
These tailored learning offerings to support you in your development at BCG, are the full form of "GSB."
What is Global Specialty Businesses?
About 65% of iron in humans is in the form of this which transports molecular oxygen from the lungs through the body
What is hemoglobin?
This is the original company that the BCG firm was once a part of.
What is The Boston Safe Deposit and Trust Company?
"Y" is for this 4-letter word which can mean "to throw" or be an interjection of joy
What is yeet?
This leadership philosophy focuses on empowering individuals, driving trust, and creating supportive environments to enable team success.
What is servant leadership?
This group of nine leaders meet monthly to provide consultants with career counseling, and have an acronym identical to the government "Centers of Disease Control."
What is the Career Development Committee?
A nephrectomy is the surgical removal of this organ
This concept, first introduced by BCG in the 1980s, is a demonstration of the power of time management.
What is time-based competition?
Contracting your muscles or "showing off" is known as this term.
What is a flex?
Calculated at the end of each sprint, this is the sum of effort estimates of user stories that were completed in the sprint.
What is velocity?