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3-minute self-assessment for consulting leaders

How exposed is your firm to knowledge bottlenecks?

This assessment is designed for consulting firms in the 20 to 200 employee range that are trying to scale delivery without losing quality, continuity, or the expertise clients actually pay for.

Score each statement based on your current reality. The result will show how much your growth model still depends on informal coordination and key people.

1. Partners or senior managers are still the default source of truth for delivery decisions.
2. Teams spend too much time searching across folders, SharePoint, slides, and past project files.
3. Useful project knowledge is hard to reuse across practices, teams, or new proposals.
4. Onboarding new consultants takes too long because context lives in people's heads.
5. Different teams answer similar client questions in different ways.
6. Generic AI helps with drafting, but often misses firm context or adds risk.
7. Project quality drops when key people are unavailable, overloaded, or leave.
8. Important methods, templates, and examples are scattered across too many tools.
Your score
8/24
Emerging Bottleneck

Knowledge is starting to slow the firm down. Teams can still cope, but continuity and reuse are becoming management issues.

Best fit for this profile
20-50 employees firms where senior people carry too much delivery context and teams need a safer way to reuse experience.

What this usually means

  • Senior people are pulled into too many repeat questions and quality checks.
  • Onboarding and cross-team reuse are slower than they should be.
  • Work quality depends too much on who happens to know the history.
Recommended focus

Create a reliable way for consultants to access grounded answers from the firm's own documents before the bottleneck spreads across delivery.

Turn this into an action plan

We can map your score to the places where continuity breaks first: proposals, onboarding, delivery quality, knowledge reuse, and senior review bottlenecks.

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