Consulting & Strategy Jargon · Vice President level

"Current state"

"Current state" means how a process, system, or organization operates right now, before any proposed changes are made.

Say this instead: how things work now

How "Current state" shows up at work

A consulting staple that anchors the first third of any transformation deck. The current state is always described as suboptimal, which conveniently justifies everything on the slides that follow.

Buzzword

Section one covers the current state before we get into our recommendations.

Plain English

Section one describes how things work today before we get into what we recommend changing.

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