What makes strategy consulting different to management consulting?

Both seem to evaluate a problem and provide recommendations. Maybe there are some specific areas like due diligence etc which are more niche, but seems like a high degree of overlap between SC and MC?

And I’d exclude PMO from true MC…

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Strategy is coming up with business ideas, management is like glorified PMO.

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I view it a bit differently from previous responders. I’d consider strat work to be a subset of management consulting - compared to, say, ops or m&a work, which also fit within that universe. Strategy, ops, m&a, org, talent - these things are separate specializations, but are also so interconnected that very few people only operate exclusively in 1. So “mngmt consulting” is an umbrella term that serves as a catchall for all of the above. Hope that helps

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Strategy is evaluating tradeoffs inherent within choices. Often ambiguous and

Management has a more straightforward set of recommendation.

There’s lot of overlap.

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Management consulting is largely tactical grunt work. Sometimes there is solution design type recommendations but a lot of the high-level business recommendations are strategy consulting.

Strategy consulting falls under management consulting. It's just one piece of many offerings that fall under the umbrella.

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