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My hypothesis is that this isnt a good question. Cmon bainies, lets test and find out!!
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Bain's client first approach is the best
Great approach. None of the top tier management consultancies co-create with clients consistently or effectively.
We enjoy being paid to tell clients what to do. Have seen this play out across all 3 firms.
That’s the realm of innovation and design consultancies (IDEO, Frog etc).
MBB can talk about all the design capability they have, but it’s for show on some level.
Bain is answer first.. not client first
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Sorry
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I’ve been a client of 2 out of 3 and worked at the third, so I’d say semi qualified to answer the question.
Simple answer from my perspective, they’re kinda all the same, but they all know their sales pitch well so they ham that part up. e.g. M tends to do the we’ve been here before, even though they may be making shit up on the fly just the way others are; Bs ham up the well work “with you” to develop a custom answer, even if they’re running a playbook all over again.
I’d say though, any team within all 3 can come at the same problem so differently, that’s pretty cool to watch. When evaluating “novel” RFPs you’d genuinely be surprised as how different each group can be and how each of them think of what is the way to get to the “answer”. For more traditional work, they all have their own buzzwords for the same shit.
BCG has no explicit structured problem solving approach that is insisted upon in the way McK (“day 1 answer etc) and Bain do (“answer first”). We follow the same principles but our engagements are way more unstructured vs the others (by design) and we kind of rely on individual horsepower more.
🤔 not reflective of my experience here. The endless playbooks, recycled slides, and hypotheses get old eventually.
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