Hello colleagues,I currently work within IT and am looking to broaden my horizons. I have many years experience within IT support. I work with international customers supporting enterprise-wide critical systems. Having mastered the skills required to support a system, I have branched into support strategy, helping to define system requirements and even steer future tooling strategy. In addition to a strong degree, I have Prince 2, Lean Sigma, CMMI and ITIL Foundation (1st time pass).This is an ideal launch pad into Strategy Consulting – can you advise which companies I should apply to? Mckinsey, Bain or BCG?

Hiya,With a background like that, I think you should be looking at partner-level positions in McKinsey, Bain or BCG. Of all the firms listed, I think you should write to McKinsey, outlining your skills, and suggest to them that you are ideally suited to becoming a senior equity partner in their corporate strategy division. There is always a need for helpdesk strategy specialists. They will bite your hand off!

Connisseur - your response is cruel and not contstructive, but reasonably amusing

Seems suited a to a service delivery manager type role, or indeed anything in the process driven World of ITIL - incident management, change management ..etc.

Interesting variety of responses; not quite sure where The Connisseur (sic) is coming from though – satire?? What’s that got to do with showing me due respect and deference?There’s a recognition across the piece that the new way of working I’m introducing is really quite radical (try saying that with a ‘soft r’). I’m not sure you have all quite “got” “that”. Let’s not be snobbish about strategy though. Strategy can be found – and deployed - anywhere. If my skills are not wanted within MBB, well they should be!

FGHYou are an idiot.That is all.Mars.

This has got to be some joke! I shall refrain from pronoucing any acid-tongued visceral feedback, other that say and that those of who did are probably as daft the original poster - ACNers no doubt.ZB

"other that say and that those of who did"ZB, may I humbly suggest that you spend a little less time denigrating IT folks, and a little more time sense-checking your posts? fool!

I think the profile is good, but first I would also get a Black Belt in ISO9001.

if it's a joke it's funny.If it's a serious question that's pathetic. IT folks are so used to add "strategy" to all their crap projects that some really believe they do strategy.- support strategy is NOT strategy- test strategy is NOT strategy- migration strategy is NOT strategyetc...

I quite agree real strategy consultant or whatever your name is. Here's my take on the evolution of consulting jargon in the coming years:Specialist disciplines:Strategic Process mapping developmentIT Strategic managementData architecture strategyPeformance management strategyNo doubt the head-honchos at ACN are busy scribbling these down and preparing to put them into thier next glossy ad with a pic of T.Woods clenching his fist unceremoniously.I've said it incessantly that, on the whole, the consulting profression in the UK is basically poor.

ZB, do you mean like in this photo:http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/sports/thetoydepartment/TigerWoods.jpgI think a good caption would be "Go on. Be the Best. Performance Management Strategies. Delivered."

This is clearly a joke. If it isn't then you're clearly off your rocker.