what are the different types of consulting projects?

explaining the different types of consulting projects out there in plain English so if you're an incoming analyst or if you're just generally I've never seen a comprehensive breakdown like this before and a lot of you have expressed interest so I'm very excited number one discovery and diagnostic these are shorter projects with clients we have not worked with extensively before and the goal is to identify problems and opportunities through interviewing executives looking at internal data and benchmarking with competitors to then identify things that we can work on in future projects number two growth marketing and sales strategy this is what most of us will think of when we hear business strategy typically you're answering questions like what other business lines should we expand into how do we price this new product or service how do we sell more and sell faster number three transformation / project management office these are longer term larger scale and often multi work stream projects that takes the high level strategy the execs have landed on and actually implement it across all levels of the organization because the goal is to execute rather than come up with a strategy it's more operations heavy and you typically work more hand in hand with clients number four people operations these are projects focused on company culture working norms org structure compensation layoffs which by the way you can steer clear of if you want to do so that's what I did number five blue sky strategy as the name suggests there is no defined problem statement it's as big picture as it can get you're answering questions like what is our company strategy for the next 5 to 10 years what are the new categories we should expand into should we become an AI company you're working with executives you're answering very high level questions but honestly it can feel like a school project because you're bringing in data insights and case examples from internal and external sources finally number 7 state of the industry these are typically internal projects you're working on think tank style reports about a specific industry or commercial trend and these are the consulting consulting firms publish and are quoted on it can feel like a school project because you're bringing in data insights and case examples from internal and external sources if you made it this far let me know which of these projects surprised you the most and which you think you would enjoy the most see you in the next one bye