Our capabilities are different from other strategy consulting firms.
| Dean & Company Capabilities | vs. | Consulting and Advisory Marketplace |
| Analytic quantitative outputs – business models | vs. | Qualitative, direction setting |
| Detailed as well as strategic perspective | vs. | 50,000 foot perspective, broad strokes |
| Linking real world operations to strategy | vs. | Academic, conceptual frameworks |
| Results-driven, bottom-line impact | vs. | Process, facilitation |
| Fact-based | vs. | Political |
| Focused, high caliber | vs. | Supermarket: all services, to all people |
| Confidential relationships with select clients | vs. | Many clients and potential strategic conflicts |
| Creative solutions to complex, high stakes issues | vs. | Conventional wisdom for conventional problems |
