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The Strategy Skills Podcast: Hear the thinking behind the slides
FIRMSconsulting turns strategy work into something you can listen to. The useful part is hearing how a problem gets diagnosed before anyone starts polishing the answer.
Business Models Inc. and the factory that became a classroom
A pipe maker wanted a new factory. Business Models Inc. helped it see a different opportunity: teach the people fitting the pipes. Inside a consultancy that makes strategy answer to the customer.
Entlaq Holding wants Egypt’s startups to outgrow the paperwork
A Cairo consultancy connects founders, investors and policymakers. Its wager: a promising business needs a working ecosystem as much as a working product.
Boulder SBDC’s useful advice comes with a $0 bill
A candy shop and a biotechnology company have more in common than they might think. Boulder County’s publicly supported business advisers help owners tackle the work their products cannot do for them.
Civitta Hungary and the business of getting ideas unstuck
A startup mentor joined an international consultancy, then added a digital product studio. Civitta Hungary’s interesting bet is that funding, introductions and working software belong in the same conversation.
SSTTT wants to bring space down to business
Singapore Space & Technology Think Tank connects the people who build space technology with the businesses that could use it. Its most interesting destination is a farm, a port or a boardroom.
Aris finds the business hiding in the paperwork
A vegan bakery and a telemedicine startup have more in common than you might think. Rome’s Aris works on the financing, systems, and decisions that turn very different ambitions into workable businesses.
Gravitad wants your startup to survive its first customer
The Canary Islands accelerator combines business advice with a software factory. Its wager: a founder needs help building the thing, then evidence that somebody wants it.
IoT Tribe and the art of getting bought
A clever invention can still be a terrible business. IoT Tribe brings deep-tech founders closer to the people, institutions and evidence that can turn a promising demonstration into a purchase.
IoT Valley starts with the catastrophe
In Labège, a community of B2B startups asks industrial companies to bring their awkward problems. The useful innovation begins before anybody chooses a sensor.
Linda Savard and the people a spreadsheet can miss
Linda Savard has spent decades working on the practical machinery of French-speaking life in Ontario. From school capacity to economic research, the Axion founder keeps returning to a deceptively simple question: who has been counted?
World Talents wants your expertise to travel
A Portuguese consultancy connects international entrepreneurs with university labs, startup mentors and research opportunities. Its wager: the most useful thing crossing a border may be what somebody knows.
BeenThereDoneThat: three brains, nine answers, one better brief
A marketing consultancy built around experienced outsiders has a mischievous proposition: before buying another answer, make sure you have asked the right question.
Metasys and the art of making 20,000 suppliers behave
A workforce specialist grew into a digital consulting business by tackling the work between departments. Its most revealing case starts with a retailer, thousands of suppliers, and a very busy purchasing desk.
Stax asks the questions a deal would rather avoid
A promising acquisition can survive a spreadsheet and still stumble over a customer. Stax makes a business of finding the awkward questions before the money changes hands.
TDI and the Art of the Deal You Don’t Make
A promising investment can survive a bad headline and fail a quiet inquiry. TDI sells the research, judgment and software that help businesses tell the difference.
Sean Callahan Chose the Seat Where Strategy Meets the Loading Dock
A young strategist built his career by declining prestige, practicing consistency and choosing work close to consequential decisions. At Stord, those ideas now meet the unruly physical world of boxes, software and delivery promises.
FGS Global Built a Control Room for the Moment Everyone Starts Calling
Four old firms, one modern problem: when markets, politics and public opinion collide, the client cannot afford four separate advisers. FGS Global made integration its product - and complexity its market.
The Day Newlink Fired the Target Audience
A former television journalist built a consultancy around one unfashionable idea: people are not targets waiting to be hit. They are moving, talking, skeptical actors - and the brands that treat them that way can turn attention into action.
Alfa & Omega and the Strange Problem of the Strategy Nobody Uses
For more than three decades, the Oslo consultancy has worked on a deceptively simple idea: a strategy is only real when people can see what to do on Monday morning.
Teneo Built a Company for the Phone Call No CEO Wants
A communications boutique became a 1,800-person advisory machine by buying the specialists executives need when reputation, capital, risk and leadership collide. Its hardest assignment arrived when the crisis was its own.
Brunswick Group and the Quiet Business of Being Called Before the Headlines
The firm does not sell attention. It sells judgment for the hour when investors, employees, regulators and the internet all want an answer at once.
Changing Our World Works Both Sides of the Giving Table
The New York consultancy has spent 27 years translating between donors, companies and institutions. Its real product is not generosity. It is alignment.
The 3,000-Call Cure for Wall Street's Attention Deficit
Most investor-relations firms polish the story. Acorn Management Partners built a call floor to carry it - one licensed broker, one measured conversation and one stubborn follow-up at a time.
The Work That Begins When the Org Chart Stops Working
HJG / Advisors sells an unusual kind of management help: the experienced operator who enters when the problem is valuable, political, and inconveniently homeless.
The Firm That Put Three Verbs on the Door
A 38-year-old St. Louis consultancy changed owners and names, then reduced its work to three ordinary verbs: communicate, operate, advocate. The clever part is how often clients need all three at once.
The Company That Sells the Space Between a Handshake and a Headline
For nearly half a century, Strategic Partnerships has worked the overlooked territory between institutions - where a university needs an employer, a nonprofit needs a governor, and a good idea needs someone powerful to notice.
Institute for Crisis Management Knows the Fire Usually Starts Before the Smoke
For 36 years, a small Indiana consultancy has counted corporate crises. Its most useful finding is also the least cinematic: trouble usually gives management a warning first.
The Case Was Won. The Argument Wasn’t Over.
Highgate built a consultancy around an awkward truth: winning the legal argument does not always make the other side move. Its work begins where the brief ends - with intelligence, pressure, politics and a path back to the table.
The Firm That Knows the Megaphone Is Not the Message
Ward Circle Strategies built a consulting business around a stubborn idea: before you amplify a message, make sure it can survive contact with the people who need it.