Name that acronym
OOO
What is out of office?
This consulting firm was purchased by EY in 2014 in order to expand their advisory services
What is EY-Parthenon
Indra Nooyi, CEO of PepsiCo and SOM alumnus, worked at this consulting firm after graduation.
What is BCG?
(Internship at: Booz Allen Hamilton)
To make use of; to translate into additional gains. This is an extremely common consulting word.
What is leverage?
Name this fictional fiancé created to confuse team members
Who is Amanda?
(#PeterForeverAlone)
ZBC or ZBB
What is "zero based costing" or "zero based budgeting"
The three founders of L.E.K originally worked at this firm
What is Bain & Co.?
A 2008 study by USA Today showed that alumni of this consulting firm had a 1 in 690 chance of becoming a CEO! The highest of any company in the world.
What is McKinsey & Co.?
A term used to mean you must "determine whether a result makes sense based on intuition and experience."
What is the "sniff test"?
This person is also known as the "walking HR violation"
Who is Nacho?
MECE
What is mutually exclusive, collectively exhaustive?
This firm was actually the Chicago office of McKinsey until they split in 1939
What is A.T. Kearney?
Most consulting firms are privately held, name a firm that is actually publicly traded!
What is Accenture, Booz Allen Hamilton, Marsh & McLellan, Huron, etc.
A term used to mean "to get beyond the higher-level summary and go into the details."
What is to "drill down" or "deep dive" or "double click"?
(Thx)
This state is home to most of the GSS team members
Where is New York?
WIP
What is Work In Progress
This firm was established in 1845 in London after its founder was the first person to be appointed an independent auditor of a public company.
What is Deloitte?
This firm was recently hired by the Amazon-JPMorgan-Berkshire venture to help develop its strategy for lowering healthcare spending.
What is (Monitor) Deloitte?
A Consultant might be told they're doing this if they are not being focused enough.
What is "boiling the ocean"
This virus prevented travel towards the end of the project
What is coronavirus?
GSS
What is Global Shared Services
This firm was founded in 2000 by a Harvard Business School Professor.
What is Innosight?
This famous singer worked at BCG
Who is John Legend
A term for "a product, concept, analysis, or service that is irreplaceable and needs to happen for success."
What is "Mission-critical"?
Name the better team (IT or HR)
What is HR?
(Note: points will be taken away for arguments against this clear fact. Thx)