LEARN HOW TO SOLVE CONSULTING CASES
IN THE AREA OF YOUR PROFESSIONAL INTEREST
Actionable course to jumpstart your consulting career.
LEARN HOW TO SOLVE CONSULTING CASES
IN THE AREA OF YOUR PROFESSIONAL INTEREST
Actionable course to jumpstart your consulting career.
BCC is a Fun Place to Start Exercising Creative Problem Solving
BCC IS A FUN PLACE TO START EXERCISING CREATIVE PROBLEM SOLVING.
Case Consulting Skills You Gain:
- Converting a client problem into a case challenge to work on
- Data collection and case writing
- Problem-solving that proves your credibility
- Communicating clearly and empathetically
- Organization and time management
What You Learn:
- How to connect your education, skills, and interest with the case you work on.
- How to collect data for a real-life case, and how to present this data in a mini-case.
- How to apply your knowledge for solving a case.
- How to communicate your solution to the client.
- How to prepare a Case Brief for your professional portfolio.
Course Time:
- Start and end time:
- This is a self-paced course: take it at a time and place convenient for you.
- You can start your case immediately after registration
- Each case will be available to you for a month.
- Course duration:
- 2-10 hours per consulting case, depending on your style.
This Course is Best for:
- Students and recent graduates, willing to have real-life portfolio and experience
- Career changers, interested in making impact and exploring new options,
- Foreigners and immigrants who want to have US-based experience and portfolio.
- People that love solving real-life challenges and making an impact.
How It Works
Identify your case client
Identify your case clients by choosing from our list. You have the freedom to select both the case and client you’ll work with, as well as the competencies you want to excel in.
Learn the what’s and how’s
In the initial modules of the course, you will be equipped with short videos, easy-to-follow instructions, self-check questions, and examples on how to solve a consulting case and what is the BE-EDGE method.
Practice and solve away!
Whether you’re an expert in digital marketing, project management, or entrepreneurship– put your skills into action and start solving! Each client presents a distinct challenge for you to tackle. By the end of the course, you’ll engage in case consulting tasks to apply your learning.
Implement and share it to the world
Once you’ve implemented your strategies, it’s about time to level up to BE-EDGE Consult-a-thon. But before anything else, don’t forget to share your experiences and insights with the BE-EDGE community. Your contributions can inspire others and foster collaborative learning.
Identify your case client
Learn the what’s and how’s
Practice and solve away!
Implement and share it to the world
Identify your case clients by choosing from our list. You have the freedom to select both the case and client you’ll work with, as well as the competencies you want to excel in.
In the initial modules of the course, you will be equipped with short videos, easy-to-follow instructions, self-check questions, and examples on how to solve a consulting case and what is the BE-EDGE method.
Whether you’re an expert in digital marketing, project management, or entrepreneurship– put your skills into action and start solving! Each client presents a distinct challenge for you to tackle. By the end of the course, you’ll engage in case consulting tasks to apply your learning.
Once you’ve implemented your strategies, it’s about time to level up to BE-EDGE Consult-a-thon. But before anything else, don’t forget to share your experiences and insights with the BE-EDGE community. Your contributions can inspire others and foster collaborative learning.
The Cases You Consult
The Cases You Consult
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“Becoming a Case Consultant” course provides the fundamentals to becoming a proficient case consultant. Through a blend of engaging real-world case studies and hands-on assignments, you will develop the essential skills needed to excel in this dynamic field. You’ll gain practical knowledge that can be applied immediately in the consulting arena.
The BCC course is a part of the “Crafting Your Edge” division of BE-EDGE Ecosystem, where participants are welcomed to join edge-crafters community.
The course follows four E-D-G-E steps, each of which includes an introductory video, and easy-to-follow instructions, self-check questions, examples, and case consulting practicums. The result of the course is your investment in your BE – boutique employability — of clear focus, trustful connection, portfolio of generated value, and exciting message to potential clients and employers.
Elucidate your core:
- Define your area of focus and expertise.
- Identify your strengths and interests.
Develop trust:
- Craft and structure your consulting case.
- Establish credibility and rapport with the client.
Generate value – Analyzing & Solving the Case:
- Analyze the case problem thoroughly.
- Generate insights and potential solutions.
- Present a well-structured and strategic solution.
Excite the market – Your Edge:
- Showcase your unique value proposition.
- Highlight what sets you apart as a consultant.
- Engage and attract clients through your distinct edge.
BCC
(Becoming Case Consultant)
MYCC
(Making Your Consulting Case)
BE-EDGE
Consult-a-thon
You are here
a case consulting session that align with your passions, honing real-world skills through hands-on learning.
a two-weekend virtual event where all career changers, employers, and mentors meet to achieve a mutual benefit for all — a competitive edge in the global market.
BCC
(Becoming Case Consultant)
You are here
BE-EDGE Consult-a-thon
a two-weekend virtual event where all career changers, employers, and mentors meet to achieve a mutual benefit for all — a competitive edge in the global market.
MYCC
(Making Your Consulting Case)
a case consulting session that align with your passions, honing real-world skills through hands-on learning.
Get real-world experience solving actual client problems in our fundamental case consulting course
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“E”: This Case as Your Stepping Stone Towards Elucidating Your Core
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“D”: Develop trust – Connecting with the Case
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“G”: Generate value- Analyzing & Solving the Case
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“E”: Excite the market – Your Message
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Taking BCC qualifies you to join “A case of the month” community; a community of case consultants – all working on the same case.
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Invitation to a Q&A session with a mentor for the case of the month
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Your submission will be invited for a competition, only if you want it.
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Feedback from experts in the field: each submitted solution will receive feedback from
practitioners. -
Meeting a client: The authors of strongest solutions will have a chance to meet the client.
Real client projects offer students valuable hands-on experience and practical challenges.
We have a line of different consulting cases. You can select several relevant for you – to polish your skills and build a portfolio.
BCC: Becoming a Case Consultant opens the door to BE-EDGE Consult-a-thon and BE-EDGE Ecosystem of projects and events.
All cases are real, US-based organizations with social missions.
They vary in size and type of ownership:
- from small businesses to large government agencies,
- from C2C marketplaces to organic farms and volunteer-based global NGOs
The challenges vary in nature:
- from digital marketing campaign to portfolio reconfiguration,
- from approaching Gen Z to entering a new market,
- from efficiency of operation to product design and user-friendly repackaging
The course is based on the BE-EDGE Method, developed by Julia Ivy, Ph.D. Psych, Ph.D. Mgmt , which helps develop skills and boost confidence to those who are brave to enter a new professional territory.
The instructions and videos of the BCC: Becoming a Case Consultant course are developed by Dr. Julia ivy’s former master students, who are driven with the idea of helping others in their “entering a new territory” journey.
Kelsey (Kexin) is the management director of BeEDGE club. Her story with BE-EDGE starts from a course with Dr. Julia Ivy. Perusing in further education in U.S, at NorthEastern University, from another country is both exciting and intimidating, and the strategy course, BE-EDGE method, and Dr. Julia Ivy helped her position herself in the new market.
