Strategy Consulting

Prateek Rastogi | Analyst | Accenture Strategy

What is Strategy Consulting?

Strategy Consulting is a great Career option. Unfortunately, it is very difficult to find information about What Strategy Consulting actually is. Most pages on the internet just talk about How to get into Strategy Consulting. The most authoritative source of information on Strategy Consulting is someone with real experience in it.

Analyst Prateek Rastogi has 5 years & 10 months of professional experience in Strategy Consulting. Here is how Analyst Prateek Rastogi detailed Strategy Consulting:

Strategy consulting is the industry and practice of assisting businesses with high-level decisions that enable them to do this. Strategy is distinct from operations in that strategy addresses the question "What do we do?", while operations addresses the question "How do we do it?".

How Analyst Prateek Rastogi got into Strategy Consulting?

After completing my Bachelors in Chemical Engineering from BITS Pilani, I started working for PWC for three years. After that, I did my MBA degree from XLRI, Jamshedpur and since then working with Accenture Strategy as an Analyst.

Analyst Prateek Rastogi's Talk on Strategy Consulting

Starts with what is:
1)	Strategy Consulting

Next, it covers Education. It is easy to Google information about what Qualifications are needed to enter Strategy Consulting, this Talk went a step ahead to talk about the body of knowledge one needs to develop to excel at Strategy Consulting. Here is a list of Education items required for Strategy Consulting:
2)	Accounting
3)	Management Principles
4)	Economics

Then, the Talk focuses on the most important component that is Skills. Sills and success in Strategy Consulting go hand in hand. One needs to get a hold of essential skills. It explains Skills needed in Strategy Consulting with these items:
5)	Analytical
6)	Seeing the Bigger Picture
7)	Communication
8)	Teamwork
9)	People Management
10)	Time Management
11)	Networking
12)	Research
13)	Presentation Skills

There are great positives of Strategy Consulting. The Talk goes through this list of Positives of Strategy Consulting:
14)	Exposure
15)	Steep Learning Curve
16)	Dynamic Industry
17)	Opportunity to Travel
18)	Monetary Rewards

Challenges define Strategy Consulting as much as the Positives of the same:
19)	High Stress
20)	Away from Family
21)	High Competition
22)	Odd Working Hours

In the final section of the Talk, Prateek Rastogi talks about How a day goes in a Career in:
23)	Strategy Consulting

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LifePage Career Talk on Strategy Consulting

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[Trailer]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6gWJhATBrU

(Strategy Consulting, Prateek Rastogi, Accenture Strategy, Strategy Making, Business Planning, Business Management)

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