Consulting & Strategy Jargon · Managing Director level

"Key levers"

"Key levers" means the small number of factors that, when changed, have the biggest effect on the outcome you care about.

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How "Key levers" shows up at work

Consultants love this one because it sounds like you have a systems-level view of the problem. In practice it often means "two things we already knew mattered."

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We need to identify the key levers before we build the roadmap.

Plain English

We need to identify the main factors before we build the roadmap.

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