Part XIII

PART XIII: 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?