Description

Where this takes you:
An engagement that starts with a poorly defined problem produces analysis that answers the wrong question and recommendations that address the wrong situation. This module covers the structuring discipline that prevents that outcome.

This module addresses:
– Brief interrogation: the questions that convert a client’s description of a problem into a definition specific enough to work from
– Issue decomposition: breaking a complex organizational problem into component parts that can be analyzed and addressed independently before being reassembled into a coherent recommendation
– Hypothesis-driven framing: structuring the analytical work around testable propositions rather than open exploration — producing faster, more defensible conclusions

Approximate duration: +/- 3 hours

Professional impact:
A problem-structuring discipline that produces analytical work with cleaner direction, more defensible conclusions, and a significantly lower probability of producing recommendations that miss the actual problem.