Professional services firms love frameworks. The COVID-19 pandemic has given them the opportunity to roll out an impressive array of frameworks and imperatives and navigators and scenarios in an attempt to make sense of a chaotic situation. Some firms have more than one, depending on the sector or function.
As you will see, there’s considerable overlap in nomenclature among the competing frameworks.
I suppose that their utility is ultimately in the eye
of the beholder, as well as in the insights that underpin the frameworks. Here’s a selection, as of June 25, 2020.
Accenture
Reopen and reinvent
Bain
Protect, recover, and retool
BCG
Flatten, fight, future
Deloitte
Respond, recover, thrive
EY
Resilience
Gartner
Respond, recover, renew
Heidrick & Struggles
COVID-19 and
the future of work:
Four scenarios”
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KPMG
Restarting America—
Practical guide
for employers”
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McKinsey & Company
Resolve, resilience, return, reimagination, reform
Oliver Wyman
COVID-19 pandemic navigator”
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Mobilize
PwC
PwC
Stabilize
PwC
Strategize
PwC
ADAPT: asymmetry, disruption, age, polarization, trust
Russell Reynolds
Six COVID-era leadership imperatives”
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