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

StrategyU

” 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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Three Kinds Of Frameworks You Can Use To Communicate More Clearly

StrategyU

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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Consulting Pitfalls: How To Avoid “Book Report Thinking”

StrategyU

Part of this comes from insecurity but another part comes from the reality that you went through your own extended learning journey with the information. ” But from the listener’s perspective, if you are taking them down a rabbit hole of detailed numbers and information it can be tedious and frustrating.

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How I’d Use AI Tools (If I Still Worked In Consulting)

StrategyU

” Here is what it said Here are three ways someone might use a tool like Bard to help them work like a strategy consultant: Gathering and analyzing information. Bard can be used to quickly and efficiently gather information from a variety of sources, including news articles, research papers, and social media.

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Why McKinsey Will Win In The Age of AI

StrategyU

That’s exactly what Lilli is, According to them, “Employees can prompt Lilli with a question, and the tool will scan the knowledge base, locate five to seven relevant pieces of information, summarize key points, include links, and identify experts in the field.” They were experts in helping people find information.

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Issue Trees – What Are They and How Do You Use Them?

StrategyU

How Issue Trees Are Linked With Problem Solving. At StrategyU we are fans of the SCQA process to define problems and develop hypotheses. This approach enables us to have a rigorous problem-solving approach to business problems instead of starting with the solution in mind from the beginning.