tips for writing effective business case studies
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This is from an internal training I conducted in 99X Technology. Hope it will help the general audience too.TRANSCRIPT
- 1. For more than 10 years,we have been telling ourstories in lunch room,restaurants and bars.Now its the time to write them inCase Studies
- 2. What the hell is a case study?What kind of new crap it can bring to me?Isnt there more to life than writing nonsense? THE NEXT CORPORATE BULLSHIT
- 3. Writing stories is funWriting ones own story is even more funWriting ones own story as an adventureis fascinating THE INITIAL CARROTS
- 4. TARGET A CXO IN APROSPECT COMPANY
- 5. Case study should convincethat we can solve businessproblems in a methodic,predictable and transparentway
- 6. 6 RULES
- 7. 6 RULES
- 8. 1 COMPANY LEGACYSHOULD dwell IN THE CASE STUDY
- 9. Useto avoid logical idiocy
- 10. 2 GIVE it the face of a
- 11. Narration Add liveliness Define Characters Multiple sub-stories
- 12. 3 NOT READYMADE
- 13. Be specific about cases do not bring in generic stuff Solution does not necessarily be generalizable
- 14. 4
- 15. How did you respond in a crisis situation? WORLD WAR I GERMANY AUSTRIAHere the situation is not Here the situation iscatastrophic but serious catastrophic but not serious
- 16. CONNECT THE5
- 17. RETROSPECTIVETHINKINGBuilding history based onknowledge available in eachhistoric point RETROACTIVE THINKING Building history as a narration of projected events into the light of current state of knowledge
- 18. DEFINE THE PROBLEM6