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Strategy & Management Consulting

Six leadership editions

CEO edition

Your firm advises clients on transformation every week. Has the partnership had the same conversation about its own billing model?

10 min read
CFO edition

The partner bonus pool. The utilization number. The thesis your partners vote on. Three questions that look separate, but are actually one. A briefing for CFOs at European mid-market strategy and management consulting boutiques.

14 min read
COO edition

Your partners are spending their best hours supervising work AI now does. Your analyst pipeline is losing the training ground that produced your seniors. And the knowledge your best partner carries has never been written down. Three problems that are one. A briefing for operations leaders at strategy and management consulting firms.

13 min read
CHRO edition

Your rainmakers are taking calls. Your Level 1 pathway is being absorbed by McKinsey Agents and Unity Advisory. Your 2030 partner bench is being shaped by decisions you were not invited to. A briefing for Chief Human Resources Officers at mid-market European strategy and management consulting boutiques.

15 min read
CCO edition

Originated revenue per partner. The rate you can still defend. What the rainmaker carries out of the room. Three numbers every BD committee tracks. In 2026 they stop being separate. A briefing for managing directors and BD leaders at strategy and management-consulting boutiques.

14 min read
CPTO edition

Your platform budget is two instruments pretending to be one. The methodology your firm is famous for sits in forty partner heads and in a shared drive nobody has indexed. Your scorecard measures utilisation and billable hours, and neither is the 2026 question. A briefing for technology and product leaders at mid-market European strategy and management-consulting boutiques.

15 min read
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