Left EY to join Industry and the first thing I’m handed is a 500 slide deck created by Accenture strategy team, my boss wants me to go through the deck and let him know if it is of any use at all 🤣 not sure how to react , boss feels Accenture consulting team was full of BS & fluff 😂

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90-99% fluff lol

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500 slides….

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Lmao had a similar experience with a 200 page EYP deck. Usually just read the summaries

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All CDDs are 90 percent useless, minimum. In many cases you're just looking for 3 numbers

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Avoid any slides with word like Strategic, value add, vision , future

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Maybe but unlikely.

What strategy isn’t BS & fluff

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Five hundred slides? The blueprints for a passenger airline aren't that long...

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That’s why they hire from Big4

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Why would they hand the client a 500 page deck…??

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Thump factor

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It's alwayyyyys Accenture lmao 💀

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Do them right!

Tell the Accenture team to give you the exec summary

I mean, almost all consulting is fluff

Ew. This post makes me feel shame. Your boss is smart though.

We clearly screwed up unless it is 420 pages of appendix data that a dumb client asked for. But even then we should have done better.

Is it 69 point font also?

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