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Mini-Course Lesson 2: Using MECE in Your Work

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Part 2: Collectively Exhaustive In order to be collectively exhaustive your set of information needs to cover all possible options. This course teaches you how to synthesize information into compelling insights, structure your information in ways that help you solve problems, and develop presentations that resonate at the C-Level.

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Why Strategy is Simple and How Developing A Strategic Perspective Can Accelerate Your Career

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In consulting, I worked with many companies helping them to develop strategies. Although these were often focused on different levels of the business and different topics, all of the “strategies” were similar. How To Develop Your Own Strategic Perspective. Strategy Is Simple (Example: Pepsi).

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Three Kinds Of Frameworks You Can Use To Communicate More Clearly

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The reason they are used so widely is that they are a hyper-effective way of sharing information, especially when you are trying to share that information with an audience (typically, the client) that does not have deep familiarity with the data. A better way of sharing loads of information is by using a framework.

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Exploring Consulting Frameworks: The Experience Curve

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It was developed in the 1960s by Boston Consulting Group (BCG), one of the biggest consulting companies in the world at the time. The Experience Curve relies on the underlying assumption that the more experience a business has in producing a particular product or rendering a service, the lower its cost.

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Getting to The “So What?” – The Most Important Question

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” The job of a great consultant is not just to repackage information. It is to put that information into the client’s context and then give them actionable information about what they should do next. Almost every company I’ve done workshops for has the same problem: they don’t ask “So what?

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Use The Pyramid Principle To Communicate Like A CEO

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It comes from the classic business book: The Pyramid Principle by Barbara Minto. Minto was the first female consultant at McKinsey and developed these ideas to help consultants communicate complex ideas clearly. Above that are the “insights” – you synthesize your information into the “so what?”

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Five Steps to Make a Presentation Using Strategy Consulting Principles

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Structure Your Story Using Proven Frameworks Consulting presentations are built on a solid framework that makes complex information accessible. The SCQA Framework Using the SCQA framework in your presentation is about shaping your underlying problems and hypotheses that drive the work.