The Discover Your Mad Skills Case-Solving Checklist

The Discover Your Mad Skills Case-Solving Checklist

Before submitting your presentation, work through the following.

DECIPHER

☐ Do we understand what the case is really asking?

☐ Have we identified the central problem?

☐ Have we separated symptoms from root causes?

☐ Do we understand what kind of case this is?

☐ Have we identified the decision that needs to be made?

☐ Do we understand what success looks like?

ANALYZE

☐ Do we understand the organisation?

☐ Do we know what business it is really in?

☐ Have we turned facts into insights?

☐ Does every major piece of analysis answer a question?

☐ Are our frameworks being used as lenses rather than checkboxes?

☐ Can we explain the “so what?”

☐ Have we considered financial impact?

ALTERNATIVES

☐ Did our alternatives emerge from our analysis?

☐ Are they realistic?

☐ Are they implementable?

☐ Are they meaningfully different?

☐ Are they MECE?

☐ Are our decision criteria clear?

☐ Are the criteria connected to the problem?

RECOMMENDATION

☐ Is our recommendation clear?

☐ Is it obvious why it wins?

☐ Have we supported it financially?

☐ Does it fit the organisation’s capabilities?

☐ Is it realistic?

IMPLEMENTATION

☐ Do we know what happens first?

☐ Do we know who owns each step?

☐ Do we have realistic timelines?

☐ Have we identified required resources?

☐ Are the costs realistic?

☐ Do we have KPIs?

☐ Do we have leading and lagging indicators?

RISK

☐ Have we identified the most important strategic risks?

☐ Have we prioritised them?

☐ Does every major risk have a mitigation?

☐ Is the mitigation part of implementation?

COMMUNICATION

☐ Is our title slide engaging?

☐ Is the audience clearly defined?

☐ Is our opening connected to the case?

☐ Is our executive summary clear?

☐ Does our story have a logical flow?

☐ Does our close reconnect to the opening?

☐ Is our recommendation unmistakable?

☐ Are we ready for Q&A?