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In our Product Bootcamp, we talk about the power of visioning 🌟 Visioning is the act of developing a plan, goal, or vision for the future and it's often what separates winning product teams from losing product teams. 💫 A vision energises employees, investors and customers around a product's magic. One of the best examples of a well articulated vision is Steve Jobs when he rejoined the company after being ousted ⤵ A lot of people forget that Apple was down in the dumps at one point. So down that there was talk of bankruptcy and Microsoft had to bail them out. In this snippet of an interview with Tim Cook, Apple's CEO, he explains how people advised him against joining Apple, but it was Steve's "twinkle in the eye" and his incredible product vision that ultimately convinced him to join. Link to the full interview in the first comment.

➡ We've just updated our Guide To Understanding Generative AI 🎇 Scroll through or click to download to discover: ▶ the 7️⃣ ways GenAI is affecting business ▶ the 3️⃣ main technological building blocks that make it happen ▶ 6️⃣ cutting-edge AI companies that bootcamp attendees either work at or have founded including Claudio Randolph, Strategic Project Manager @ Qantev. 💡 Qantev have just raised a further 30M from Blossom Capital to revolutionise the claims process and fraud detection within health and life insurance by using AI to automate the decision-making process through the claims journey. 

"The most profound shift in technology that humanity will ever see" - Google's CEO. Yesterday's interview with Sundar Pichai on the David Rubenstein Show was 🔥 Five key insights ⤵ 1️⃣ He calls Artificial Intelligence "The most profound shift in technology that humanity will ever see", which is some statement to make given the pace of technological change. 2️⃣ He says that Google's core design in promoting the diversity of the web and enabling users to navigate it seamlessly (remember Google's mission has not changed to "organise the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful") will not change. Why does this matter? He was making the point that Google will still hand users off to websites rather than keep them on Google via its AI Overviews and it will also continue to embed search ads against search queries with commercial intent (no surprise there given Paid Search ads are still the cash cow). 3️⃣ He speaks of the growing competitive threat to Google from Amazon and TikTok on its search and advertising businesses. Although this is in part to ward off legal claims of its monopolistic position, it also speaks to how the landscape is shifting around Google. 4️⃣ Alphabet as a holding company is still relevant. He referenced their other "big bet" companies such as Waymo (autonomous self-driving cars), Wing (Drone Delivery) and Calico (Long term drug discovery) as being strategically relevant, despite them all being capital intensive and years away from turning a profit. 5️⃣ When asked why he applied to Google back in 2004, he said "I loved tech and loved their search engine but I had ideas for how I could improve the product". This echoes our advice in our bootcamps around preparing for any interview with a bank of "Sit Up Statements" - little snippets of infomation or ideas that make interviewers "sit up and take notice". 📺 To watch the full interview, click the link in the first comment.

For those interested in Strategy Consulting, OC&C Strategy Consultants have opened FT roles and their internship program, across Strategy and Analytics 👇

Data is the 🗝 , so how do you land a job in data analytics? Over the coming weeks, we're going to be posting interview snippets with leading industry experts, giving us their top tips on breaking into different industries. Today, it's a snippet from our conversation with the brilliant Joanne Schwartz from Sliide, who has had a stellar career in data analytics (Spotify, Conde Nast, Just Eat, Apple). For those of you that have been to our bootcamps, you'll know we talk about data as being the golden thread that joins all of the theoretical concepts and practical skills together. In this video, Joanne talks about How To Land a Job in Data ✨ Our full conversation is in the link in the first comment ⤵

👋 Meet Linde Wang, Design and Digital Products Consultant at Accenture Song and MiM graduate from ESMT Berlin. As part of our new-look “How To Get Into Digital Consulting” Guide, we asked students who have done our bootcamp for their own application insights and the things they love about their roles ... Key takeaways from Linde: 1️⃣ Improving the Digital Customer Experience is a major part of Digital Consulting projects 2️⃣ She identifies being knowledgeable and curious as well as building your personal brand (or in her terms "Form own opinion on the new digital trends, know one’s own “brand” and story, stay up to trend with consulting & Accenture topics") as key to interview success 3️⃣ She calls out Customer Experience, Digital Transformation, (Gen)AI, Communication and Project Management as being important skills. 👀 You can read our full guide by clicking the link in the first comment 👇 cc: Marcel Kalis

👋 Meet Divyansh Gupta, former Associate at McKinsey Digital, now Product & Change Manager at British Airways and MBA graduate from INSEAD. As part of our refreshed “How To Get Into Digital Consulting” Guide, we asked business school students for their own application tips and tricks and the things they love about their roles ... Key takeaways from Divy: 1️⃣ McKinsey digital consultants help clients "tackle their toughest digital challenges". 2️⃣ He calls out 'digital transformation' as sitting at the heart of the role, which is about helping clients leverage technology and data to drive innovation and improve performance. 3️⃣ He identifies knowledge around technology, data analytics, and organizational change management as being key to becoming a trusted digital advisor. 👥 He's also got great tips for impressing in an interview, which you can read in our full guide, click the link in the first comment 👇

Strategy Consulting is changing. The likes of McKinsey, Bain, BCG, Deloitte and Accenture now make more money from implementation of digital transformation than the formulation of strategy. ✅ As a result: ➖ They're investing in their digital units (McKinsey Digital, Bain Vector, BCG X, Deloitte Digital, Accenture Song) ➖ They're acquiring data analytics firms (e.g. Bain bought Piper Labs), digital marketing agencies (Accenture bought Karmarama, McKinsey bought LOBO and IncepTech) ➖ There are 'growth' roles available across their websites and these are growing In this guide, we pull together insights from James Anderson (partner at Bain), consultants at McKinsey and Jay Patel (ex BCG) on what makes these digital units tick and what skills are needed to land jobs in these fast-growing divisions.

We're excited to publish our "Guide to Understanding Generative AI" 👇 Scroll through to 🔍 Discover the 7️⃣ ways GenAI is affecting business 🏗 Identify the 3️⃣ main technological building blocks that make it happen 👁 See a range of AI businesses that our bootcamp attendees have either founded or work at, featuring: ▶ Stability AI - builds models for generating images, text, and other content from textual descriptions. Its most notable contribution is the Stable Diffusion model, which can generate high-quality images from text descriptions (Joséphine Parquet is a Product Manager) ▶ Captur - changing how fleet operations & management is conducted for Delivery, Micro-mobility and Automotive companies using AI-powered image recognition tech (founded by Charlotte Bax) ▶ My AskAI - builds AI customer support agents for SaaS companies, trained on websites and internal documentation that are cheaper, faster and better (founded by Alex Rainey) ▶ Sphere - uses LLMs to help companies put global indirect tax on autopilot (sales tax, VAT and GST compliance) - handling everything from monitoring, registration, calculation and filing in one click (Nicholas Rudder is founder) ▶ Encord - the leading data development platform for advanced vision and multimodal AI teams, building tools and infrastructure to help the world’s leading AI teams get their models into production faster (Matt Tang is Client Ops Lead) Download in LinkedIn or click the link in the first comment to read it in web form.

👋 Meet Silvia Prieto, Head of Generative AI and Machine Learning for Global Financial Service Accounts - EMEA & APJ at Amazon Web Services (AWS) and MBA graduate from London Business School. As part of our refreshed “How To Get Into Big Tech” Guide, we asked business school students who have done our bootcamp for their own application tips and tricks and the things they love about their roles ... Key takeaways from Silvia: 1️⃣ Generative AI and Machine Learning is impacting large financial institutions and Amazon Web Services is front and centre 2️⃣ She calls out 'cultural fit' as being the most important thing that Amazon is looking for 3️⃣ She identifies Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Cloud Computing, and having industry specific experience as being beneficial To read our full guide, click the link in the first comment 👇 David Morris