Vishwanath Gopu Ramdas's Key Ideas from The McKinsey Way
by Ethan Rasiel

Ideation needs to be mutually exclusive and collectively exhaustive

Create a knowledge graph of the issues like the fish bone diagram from lean

Brainstorming and lateral thinking [ Edward de Bono ] approaches would be useful here key

Suspend judgement; random thought generation; reversal methods ; question basis [ 5 why] and historicity; triz

Very critical for key problems to generate and test hypothesis

Collect data ; primary secondary tertiary

Interviews ; surveys; walk through and observation ; sensing iot ;

Go through a manager; setup right expectations; pair to ensure proper coverage; make interviewee comfortable; confirm points being made; write down; collate information; classify and expand; thank you note;

Manage hierarchy ; force field analysis ; manage clients; manage staff

High impact Presentation ; seeking the idea; agreement; negotiation ; days focused; managing emotion;

Communication; mentor; plan and control; generate commitment [ interest + funds]

Google - EMSS; iterate; hack and fail fast; measure and report;

Internal reports; business data;

Public data; buy high quality data; d

Tabulation ; classification; data engineering; analytics ml ; data quality; interpolation

Anomaly detection; time series; classification; regression; clustering; reinforcement learning ; curve spline fitting