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0710 | Writing the Org Chart in Pencil with Liann Eden

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Liann Eden is the co-founder of Eden McCallum, a consultant firm with no consultants. Using an innovative organizational design, Eden is able to bring the brightest consultants to client projects by forming bespoke teams. Listen in iTunes ] [ Listen on Stitcher ].

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What Happens When All Employees Work When They Feel Like It

Harvard Business Review

The management consulting firm Eden McCallum, from London, does strategy work much like McKinsey, the Boston Consulting Group, and Bain – but with one important exception: none of its roughly 500 consultants are on the payroll. Eden and McCallum’s idea was: Come work for us! Is Eden McCallum the ideal employer for everyone?

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What So Many Strategists Get Wrong About Digital Disruption

Harvard Business Review

A company that understood this well is Eden McCallum. Eden McCallum shows that not all disruption need to be digital. Dutch bank ING decided to act swiftly, and rapidly assembled a large team of dedicated executives who would explore the new technology, develop applications, and market its products in the virtual world.

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Revenge of the HourlyNerds

Harvard Business Review

Founded only last year by a team of current MBA students, HourlyNerd is a prime example of the disruption in consulting that my co-authors and I discuss in our new article , “Consulting on the Cusp of Disruption” in HBR. Eden McCallum , for example, is a U.K. As such, HourlyNerd is essentially competing against non-consumption.