Strategy Consulting

Prateek Rastogi | Analyst | Accenture Strategy

What is Strategy Consulting?

You may be curious about a Career in Strategy Consulting. One should first understand What a Career in Strategy Consulting entails before investing time and effort to figure out How to start a Career in Strategy Consulting. It is best to learn about Strategy Consulting from a real professional, this is akin to getting it from the horse's mouth.

Analyst Prateek Rastogi has worked in Strategy Consulting for 5 years & 10 months. According to Analyst Prateek Rastogi, Strategy Consulting is:

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. It discusses following headings for Education in Strategy Consulting:
2)	Accounting
3)	Management Principles
4)	Economics

Then, the Talk focuses on the most important component that is Skills. Anyone aspiring for Strategy Consulting needs to understand that Skill development is crucial for success. It defines Skills in terms of following items for Strategy Consulting:
5)	Analytical
6)	Seeing the Bigger Picture
7)	Communication
8)	Teamwork
9)	People Management
10)	Time Management
11)	Networking
12)	Research
13)	Presentation Skills

Positives of Strategy Consulting are quite interesting. This Talk explains these Positives of Strategy Consulting:
14)	Exposure
15)	Steep Learning Curve
16)	Dynamic Industry
17)	Opportunity to Travel
18)	Monetary Rewards

After a discussion on Positives, Challenges complete the caricature of Strategy Consulting:
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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