Action Titles Library
Real declarative titles from real consulting decks.
The McKinsey convention: the title of a slide states its insight, not its topic. Every entry here is verbatim from a live deck in the corpus.
McKinsey
establish_context
“The United States leads the QT field in private funding and number of start-ups.”
McKinsey
benchmark_peers
“Companies can look outside their industries to find best-in-class opportunities.”
McKinsey
analyze_data
“The yen’s weakness made Japan a major international shopping destination in 2024”
McKinsey
size_opportunity
“The Silver Generation is disproportionately wealthier and spends more on fashion”
McKinsey
diagnose
“In Europe, online fashion marketplaces will need to evolve their business models”
McKinsey
analyze_data
“In non-luxury, value creation will be more evenly distributed across the segment”
MorganStanley
establish_context
“Abundance of liquidity drove IPO activities as business adjusted to the new norm”
MorganStanley
front_matter
“How we can seize today's opportunity to accelerate progress on behavioral health”
MorganStanley
analyze_data
“Pivot to logistics continues – asset sales to reduce office and other categories”
Nielsen
analyze_data
“86% international attendees and local visitors stayed overnight in the host city”
PwC
analyze_data
“Financial institutions are embracing disruption and upping their innovation game”
PwC
illustrate_case
“Reducing wind project feasibility uncertainty and boosting site screening Vortex”
PwC
establish_context
“Our survey covered 5 continents and 29 territories, including 24,471 respondents”
PwC
analyze_data
“AVOD growth would be the driving engine for Mainland China and Indonesia markets”
misc
analyze_data
“86% international attendees and local visitors stayed overnight in the host city”
Accel
analyze_data
“Fastest growing cloud companies moving to profitability as growth slowed down...”
Accel
analyze_data
“...but venture financing eventually dropping sharply in Q3 after record quarters”
Accel
analyze_data
“Software is not going away: Globalscape Public Cloud Index recovering (+25% y/y)”
Accenture
frame_problem
“As AI takes on more judgment-based and autonomous tasks, human roles must adapt.”
AirStreetCapital
illustrate_case
“Deep learning in medicine: Neural networks decode your thoughts from brain waves”
AirStreetCapital
benchmark_peers
“Google continues its dominance at NeurIPS 2018, a premier academic AI conference”
AirStreetCapital
illustrate_case
“In response to criticism Google starts to reduce gender bias in Google Translate”
AirStreetCapital
establish_context
“Like all software, ML models need to be debugged, but understanding them is hard”
AirStreetCapital
frame_problem
“AI labs spend more in a day than AI safety science organizations spend in a year”
AirStreetCapital
illustrate_case
“OpenAI and Anthropic test each other’s models on safety evals for the first time”
AirStreetCapital
analyze_data
“Frontier labs face up to the realities of the power grid and work on mitigations”
AirStreetCapital
illustrate_case
“Stable Video Diffusion marks a step forward for high-quality video generation...”
AirStreetCapital
analyze_data
“The global balance of power in AI research remains unchanged, but academia gains”
AirStreetCapital
diagnose
“But running large clusters continues to be an art and a science of interruptions”
AirStreetCapital
analyze_data
“Compute Index: NVIDIA continues to be the preferred option in AI research papers”
AirStreetCapital
analyze_data
“Compute Index: NVIDIA continues to be the preferred option in AI research papers”
AirStreetCapital
analyze_data
“Databricks and Snowflake pivot to build their own models...but can they compete?”
AirStreetCapital
illustrate_case
“Large language models can generate functional proteins that are unseen in nature”
AirStreetCapital
illustrate_case
“Reinforcement learning could be a core component of the next fusion breakthrough”
AirStreetCapital
establish_context
“The US cuts China off from NVIDIA and AMD chips...will this spur Chinese AI R&D?”
AirStreetCapital
analyze_data
“More hyperscalers develop their own inference hardware for internal AI workloads”
AirStreetCapital
frame_problem
“AI and defense tech attracts record funding...but is politics stalling progress?”
AirStreetCapital
illustrate_case
“AI sifts through chemical space using DNA-encoded small molecule libraries (DEL)”
AirStreetCapital
analyze_data
“The majority of top AI researchers working in the US were not trained in America”
AirStreetCapital
analyze_data
“Self-driving mileage in California remains microscopic compared to human driving”
AirStreetCapital
analyze_data
“Evidence suggests that the US tax code incentivises replacing humans with robots”
BCG
establish_context
“Emerging agent-to-agent protocols, such as Google’s A2A, will work alongside MCP”
BCG
diagnose
“Limitations and risks of AI/GenAI in supply chains should be carefully addressed”
BenedictEvans
analyze_data
“YouTube creator payouts are almost certainly comparable to TV production budgets”
Bessemer
benchmark_peers
“Snowflake massively surpassed VMware’s record as largest software IPO in history”
Bessemer
analyze_data
“Prediction 6: Fintech and crypto players are changing financial services forever”
BondCap
illustrate_case
“AI Performance = Increasingly Realistic Conversations Simulating Human Behaviors”
BondCap
analyze_data
“...AI Monetization...Foundation Models = Developer API Fees Driving Monetization”
BondCap
illustrate_case
“Image-Based Communication = Enabled by Computer Vision + Artificial Intelligence”
BondCap
establish_context
“USA = 14% of Population Foreign-Born & Rising... Near All-Time High (1910) @ 15%”
BondCap
analyze_data
“China Mobile Internet Usage (Data) = Continues to Accelerate +189% vs. +162% Y/Y”
BondCap
size_opportunity
“Apple App Store Distribution – iTunes App Store Driving 46MM+* Downloads per Day”
BondCap
analyze_data
“ENTITLEMENT AND INTEREST EXPENSES WILL EXCEED USA INC.'S REVENUE WITHIN 15 YEARS”
BondCap
illustrate_case
“A lot of the future of search is going to be about pictures instead of keywords.”
BondCap
analyze_data
“...Image-Based Platform Back-Ends = Algorithms Infer User Context from Images...”
BondCap
establish_context
“...Apartment Building Lobbies Becoming Warehouses... Doormen Becoming Foremen...”
BondCap
analyze_data
“Facebook / Instagram / Snap = Mobile Video Traffic Share Gainers Over 4 Years...”
BondCap
analyze_data
“China B2C eCommerce @ 15% of Retail Sales… Penetration Ramping Faster Than Peers”
BondCap
analyze_data
“Smartphone + Feature Phone Shipments = +6% Y/Y (Q1:17)...-3% (2016)...-2% (2015)”
BondCap
establish_context
“Rise in Inputs + Data = Medical Research / Knowledge Doubling Every 3.5 Years...”
BondCap
analyze_data
“...Accumulation of Genomic Data Leads to... 19x Increase in Genomic Knowledge...”
BondCap
illustrate_case
“Healthcare Practices = Being Re-Imagined... Leveraging Data to Optimize Outcomes”
BondCap
illustrate_case
“China Feature + Data-Rich Internet Platforms = Largest # of Users in One Country”
BondCap
establish_context
“Artificial Intelligence Focus = China Government Highly Focused on Developing AI”
BondCap
transition
“China Online Payments / Advertising / On-Demand Transportation = Growing Rapidly”
BondCap
benchmark_peers
“Messaging Platforms – Asia In-Country Leaders = Developing Evolving Playbooks...”
BondCap
transition
“Marketing Channels Evolve With Time... Shaped by Evolution of Technology + Media”
BondCap
establish_context
“Video Evolution = Accelerating Live (Linear) → On-Demand → Semi-Live → Real-Live”
BondCap
analyze_data
“Voice Word Accuracy Rates Improving Rapidly... +90% Accuracy for Major Platforms”
BondCap
analyze_data
“Uber Platform / Network = Why Millions of Riders Have Taken >1B Rides Since 2009”
BondCap
analyze_data
“Current Generation of Internet Leaders = Growing Faster than Previous Generation”
BondCap
establish_context
“Media + Data Uploading + Sharing from Mobiles = Ramping Fast & Still Early Stage”
BondCap
analyze_data
“2.4B Global Internet Users in 2012* – 8% Y/Y Growth*, Driven by Emerging Markets”
BondCap
analyze_data
“Mobile Usage = Continues to Rise Rapidly... @ 25% of Total Web Usage vs. 14% Y/Y”
BondCap
size_opportunity
“Remain Optimistic About Mobile Ad Spend Growth... Print Remains Way Over-Indexed”
BondCap
analyze_data
“Re-Imagining Media (Music) Consumption = Streaming +32%, Digital Track Sales -6%”
BondCap
analyze_data
“Sensors = Big / Broad Business, Rapid Growth, Rising Proliferation /N Devices...”
Accenture
recommend
“Find the segment of one: Offering personalized experiences tailored to personas”
Accenture
analyze_data
“FIGURE 8: THE CHANGING IMPORTANCE OF STEM/ANALYSIS AND COMPLEX REASONING SKILLS”
Accenture
establish_context
“Modernizing the technology stack from a legacy-based system is a big challenge.”