IBM Global Services or IBM Consulting is the professional services arm of IBM, providing a range of consulting services to help organizations improve their performance and achieve their business objectives. IBM offers a wide range of services in areas such as Digital Transformation, Data & Analytics, and IT Strategy. IBM works with clients in a variety of industries, including financial services, healthcare, retail, and manufacturing.
Large consulting and advisory firms, like IBM's consulting practice, have internal knowledge management repositories that allow their consultants to easily access and share documents (e.g., consulting frameworks, PowerPoint templates, project deliverables, whitepapers, case studies, business cases, financial models, benchmark data, etc.) and expertise within the organization. At IBM, this knowledge infrastructure is anchored by the w3 intranet and includes Bluepedia (IBM's internal wiki) and IBM Connections (enterprise collaboration spanning wikis, files, forums, and document management), alongside BluePages for firm-wide expertise location. These systems provide consultants with a unified way to search, retrieve, and contribute institutional knowledge across practices and geographies. More recently, IBM Consulting has begun rolling out IBM Consulting Advantage to bring AI-enabled knowledge and tools directly into the flow of client work.
These document repositories promote collaboration, facilitate the sharing of best practices, and help ensure that the firm's knowledge and expertise are leveraged effectively across different client engagements and teams. They are a key differentiator that allow firms like IBM to outcompete other organizations.
Flevy is essentially a public version of these consulting knowledge management libraries. The IBM presentations and templates listed above on this page are framework presentations of the same caliber as those developed and used by IBM consultants. These frameworks are widely applicable across different projects, addressing general topics like problem solving, structured communication, strategic thinking, project management, etc. For frameworks and resources catered to a specific management topic, such as Change Management, Process Improvement, Digital Transformation, etc., scroll down to the "Other Management Topics" section.
The majority of the materials found on Flevy are developed by seasoned executives and consultants with 20+ years of experience with backgrounds that include McKinsey, BCG, Bain, Deloitte, Accenture, A.T. Kearney, Capgemini, IBM Global Services, EY, PwC, Mercer, and Oliver Wyman.
For effective implementation, take a look at these IBM Presentations best practices:
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