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The Consulting Process: Rabbit Holes & Sensemaking - StrategyU

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The pyramid principle and MECE is a powerful combination of tools for making sense of large amounts of complex information and then structuring that information to be communicated in a memorable and powerful way. Consulting teams use these two principles as guiding framework around the “how” – the consulting problem solving process. In a typical consulting project, making sense of information and coming up with your “story” is not a one shot deal. Typically the team iterates over and over again, sometimes hundreds of times, to get to the key takeaways. Here is a simplified version of this process: This can be a painful process – as you are challenging your ideas over and over again. If there isn’t a high degree of trust within the team or the team loses faith in the project leader, things can go off the rails quickly. In my experience, however, the process is worth it. The type of work I’ve created in these teams far exceeds the quality of work I’ve created in other corporate envir

← Back to Blog The Consulting Process: Rabbit Holes & Sensemaking Paul Millerd March 16, 2019 3 min read The pyramid principle and MECE is a powerful combination of tools for making sense of large amounts of complex information and then structuring that information to be communicated in a memorable and powerful way. Consulting teams use these two principles as guiding framework around the “how” – the consulting problem solving process. In a typical consulting project, making sense of information and coming up with your “story” is not a one shot deal. Typically the team iterates over and o

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