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;

Key Steps To Interviews

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

Get Buyin

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

Data Science Models

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

Manage Stakeholders

Ideation needs to be mutually exclusive and collectively exhaustive

MECE

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

Key Brainstorming Principles

Very critical for key problems to generate and test hypothesis

Hypothesis Generation

Collect data ; primary secondary tertiary

Data Collection

Secondary Data

Public data; buy high quality data; d

Tertiary Days

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

Data Analysis

Map the problem of the business, David kaplan's BSC is a great starting point to look at the business as a whole

Balanced Score Card 

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

Manage And Govern Change

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

Implement Change

The esteemed organization approach to solving problems , based on Ethan rasiel book McKinsey way and McKinsey mind

McKinsey Method 

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

Decision / Issue Trees

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

Primary Data Collection

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

Brainstorm

"If more business books were as useful, concise, and just plain fun to read as THE MCKINSEY WAY, the business world would be a better place." --Julie Bick, best-selling author of ALL I REALLY NEED TO KNOW IN BUSINESS I LEARNED AT MICROSOFT. "Enlivened by witty anecdotes, THE MCKINSEY WAY contains valuable lessons on widely diverse topics such as marketing, interviewing, team-building, and brainstorming." --Paul H. Zipkin, Vice-Dean, The Fuqua School of Business It's been called "a breeding ground for gurus." McKinsey & Company is the gold-standard consulting firm whose alumni include titans such as "In Search of Excellence" author Tom Peters, Harvey Golub of American Express, and Japan's Kenichi Ohmae. When Fortune 100 corporations are stymied, it's the "McKinsey-ites" whom they call for help. In THE MCKINSEY WAY, former McKinsey associate Ethan Rasiel lifts the veil to show you how the secretive McKinsey works its magic, and helps you emulate the firm's well-honed practices in problem solving, communication, and management. He shows you how McKinsey-ites think about business problems and how they work at solving them, explaining the way McKinsey approaches every aspect of a task: How McKinsey recruits and molds its elite consultants; How to "sell without selling"; How to use facts, not fear them; Techniques to jump-start research and make brainstorming more productive; How to build and keep a team at the top its game; Powerful presentation methods, including the famous waterfall chart, rarely seen outside McKinsey; How to get ultimate "buy-in" to your findings; Survival tips for working in high-pressure organizations. Both a behind-the-scenes look at one of the most admired and secretive companies in the business world and a toolkit of problem-solving techniques without peer, THE MCKINSEY WAY is fascinating reading that empowers every business decision maker to become a better strategic player in any organization.

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Books

"If more business books were as useful, concise, and just plain fun to read as THE MCKINSEY WAY, the business world would be a better place." --Julie Bick, best-selling author of ALL I REALLY NEED TO KNOW IN BUSINESS I LEARNED AT MICROSOFT. "Enlivened by witty anecdotes, THE MCKINSEY WAY contains valuable lessons on widely diverse topics such as marketing, interviewing, team-building, and brainstorming." --Paul H. Zipkin, Vice-Dean, The Fuqua School of Business It's been called "a breeding ground for gurus." McKinsey & Company is the gold-standard consulting firm whose alumni include titans such as "In Search of Excellence" author Tom Peters, Harvey Golub of American Express, and Japan's Kenichi Ohmae. When Fortune 100 corporations are stymied, it's the "McKinsey-ites" whom they call for help. In THE MCKINSEY WAY, former McKinsey associate Ethan Rasiel lifts the veil to show you how the secretive McKinsey works its magic, and helps you emulate the firm's well-honed practices in problem solving, communication, and management. He shows you how McKinsey-ites think about business problems and how they work at solving them, explaining the way McKinsey approaches every aspect of a task: How McKinsey recruits and molds its elite consultants; How to "sell without selling"; How to use facts, not fear them; Techniques to jump-start research and make brainstorming more productive; How to build and keep a team at the top its game; Powerful presentation methods, including the famous waterfall chart, rarely seen outside McKinsey; How to get ultimate "buy-in" to your findings; Survival tips for working in high-pressure organizations. Both a behind-the-scenes look at one of the most admired and secretive companies in the business world and a toolkit of problem-solving techniques without peer, THE MCKINSEY WAY is fascinating reading that empowers every business decision maker to become a better strategic player in any organization.

Decision / Issue Trees

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