I do a mix of strategy and tech engagements, is it just me or do strategy folks seem to waste the most time? Constant status updates, tweaking slides that are perfectly good. It's frustrating.

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Yes! I have noticed the exact same thing. I work, tech, strategy, and process in a specific capability and find strategy people work the longest basically just wasting time.

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So true! Glad it isn't just me.

Deloitte focuses so much on decks. I am internal and 80% of my time is spent on decks. I work in analytics and hardly get to work on anything because I am too busy changing colors on a graph or trying to fit months of research on one slide and dumb it down

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No where yet, on the hunt lol

Agree

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I would say it’s because of different angles.

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I mean if that's what keeps them up at night, I feel bad for them

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While I haven't touched a deck in my time as an analytics consultant, I see a lot of wasted time in tech projects. Usually comes down to poorly defined requirements which means endless code tweaks or even complete overhauls. Another thing is skill gap... A considerable amount time is spent on Google to solve often basic problems.

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Industry cares way less about decks and doing actual work

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I present all day to sr leadership. No problem spending them on a deck or presentations but when you have to continuously dumb bullets and graphs down, they end up meaning very little. Also, no sense doing 60 versions of a deck, I could see up to 10 being acceptable.

Anyway going to amazon where there are no decks just memos

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Congrats!

Exactly....

To play devils advocate: all of your work is completely meaningless if you can’t properly and persuasively communicate it to the right people - which is something you’ll eventually have to do at all levels.

So yes, small formatting tweaks are often a waste of time. But I completely disagree that putting thought to proper structure and improved design are; and I’d bet your definition of “perfectly fine” might not actually pass the sniff test for some key stakeholder audiences.

You don't know industry then

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