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Mini-Course Lesson 2: Using MECE in Your Work

StrategyU

One of the most important ideas in consulting problem solving is MECE. Part 2: Collectively Exhaustive In order to be collectively exhaustive your set of information needs to cover all possible options. If you’ve been around current or former strategy consultants, you probably heard someone say this.

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Problem-Solving Tools to Help Your Business Increase Productivity

Wrike

Important messages repeatedly get missed, information gets buried and lost, and you’re always sliding in just under the wire — or worse, after the deadline. We’ve pulled together this list of problem-solving tools that will address some common team roadblocks and increase productivity within your business. .

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Obsessing On Process & Meta-Process: The Secret of High-Performing Consulting Firms

StrategyU

We define the problem, we gather data, we analyze, we synthesize, and we make recommendations. There are countless frameworks and methodologies out there DMAIC, the scientific method, the McKinsey 7-step problem-solving process , and many more. What information do we need at each stage? is the topic expert ?

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Use The Pyramid Principle To Communicate Like A CEO

StrategyU

Bottom-Up : Using the principles to go from lots of information to a synthesized core idea Top-down: Once you have a structured set of ideas using things like MECE, this is how you think about organizing the sequence and order of events. 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

StrategyU

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.

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Ten Business MECE Examples

StrategyU

You can check out the social media examples and others Do you have a toolkit for business problem solving? 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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How Top-Tier Consultants at McKinsey, Bain, and BCG Really Solve Problems 

StrategyU

Problem-solving” is one of the most overused and least understood phrases in the business world. When many people talk about solving problems, they are rarely talking about a problem-solving process. What I got wrong about problem-solving What are the most important skills you need to be successful?