Alternative Consulting Ranking

Hi all,

I've had quite a few DM's recently on what are best management consultancies to work for, most prestigious, etc. Every year, my firm (MBB) runs a competitive landscaping exercise, where we ask our clients to grade both ourselves and our competition across a series of dimensions. This is an integral part of our client / industry planning process and helps us figure out who are competition is across different sectors and functions.

Why am I sharing this? Purely for information! Different rankings tell a different story. This isn't a prestige ranking, or a best-place-to-work ranking or anything like that. This is purely a client-driven exercise to gauge competition in this space.

Global remit, sample size 100+. I won't go into details as to what questions we asked, but there shouldn't be any surprises here.

Caveats: This is one firm's (through its client base) perspective, others will undoubtedly differ, based on the questions that they ask.

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Premier (in no particular order): McKinsey, BCG, Bain

Premier / Tier 1 (for specific sectors, functions): OW (for FS / capital markets), ATK (for supply chain strategy), IBM-GBS (for digital / IT)

General Tier 1: Deloitte (Monitor), PwC (Strategy&), EY (Parthenon), OW, ATK, Roland Berger

General Tier 2: Accenture, KPMG, Mercer, ADL, OC&C, Alix, A&M, SKP, CapGemini

General Tier 3: LEK, CIL, Candesic and other niche, boutique places that focus on very specific sectors or topics (i.e. due diligence work, operational excellence, etc)

Best wishes,
Rob

Reply 1

username738914

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IBM seems a bit high.. where is accenture or kpmg strat? and non-strat pwc/deloitte/ey? LEK is also way too low..

Arguably Alix/A&M/FTI should be in the tier 1 for specific functions for RX/turnaround consulting. There's also a bunch of econ consulting firms missing too.

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Reply 2

rob1060

OP

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Original post by Princepieman

IBM seems a bit high.. where is accenture or kpmg strat? and non-strat pwc/deloitte/ey? LEK is also way too low..

Arguably Alix/A&M/FTI should be in the tier 1 for specific functions for RX/turnaround consulting. There's also a bunch of econ consulting firms missing too.

As I mentioned, this is a specific competitive landscaping exercise that we ran, so likely that opinions will differ. LEK appears relatively fair, given that their model has effectively moved to transaction advisory and very limited strategy projects.

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arachnid7

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Original post by rob1060

Hi all,

I've had quite a few DM's recently on what are best management consultancies to work for, most prestigious, etc. Every year, my firm (MBB) runs a competitive landscaping exercise, where we ask our clients to grade both ourselves and our competition across a series of dimensions. This is an integral part of our client / industry planning process and helps us figure out who are competition is across different sectors and functions.

Why am I sharing this? Purely for information! Different rankings tell a different story. This isn't a prestige ranking, or a best-place-to-work ranking or anything like that. This is purely a client-driven exercise to gauge competition in this space.

Global remit, sample size 100+. I won't go into details as to what questions we asked, but there shouldn't be any surprises here.

Caveats: This is one firm's (through its client base) perspective, others will undoubtedly differ, based on the questions that they ask.

**

Premier (in no particular order): McKinsey, BCG, Bain

Premier / Tier 1 (for specific sectors, functions): OW (for FS / capital markets), ATK (for supply chain strategy), IBM-GBS (for digital / IT)

General Tier 1: Deloitte (Monitor), PwC (Strategy&), EY (Parthenon), OW, ATK, Roland Berger

General Tier 2: Accenture, KPMG, Mercer, ADL, OC&C, Alix, A&M, SKP, CapGemini

General Tier 3: LEK, CIL, Candesic and other niche, boutique places that focus on very specific sectors or topics (i.e. due diligence work, operational excellence, etc)

Best wishes,
Rob

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