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What So Many Strategists Get Wrong About Digital Disruption

Harvard Business Review

As a firm, McKinsey finds consulting projects and then matches them with people they have recruited and trained. A company that understood this well is Eden McCallum. Eden McCallum shows that not all disruption need to be digital. And that’s how they have always done it.

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Revenge of the HourlyNerds

Harvard Business Review

These businesses have powerful disruptive potential because they can provide consulting at a fraction of the cost of traditional models, largely because they do not need to carry expensive fixed costs like recruiting, training, consultant “beach” time, and expensive real estate. Eden McCallum , for example, is a U.K.