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13 October 2012

Introducing the Case Interview Process Model© - Part 2: Hypothesis & Structure

This post follows the first part of the Case Interview Process Model, where we discussed the goal of the maps and how to open a case.

First of all, my sincere apologies to post the second part this late. The combination of interviews, quitting a job and devoting time to charity has been has been overwhelming. Yet, this is not an excuse, because as we shall learn when working in consulting, great performance is a function of discipline, and discipline only. I obviously lacked it during those three months :) On that note, let's get started!

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In today's post, we will focus on the first two steps of the Analyze Case sub-process: Define Initial Hypothesis and Structure Hypothesis. Those tasks are the bulk of a case study so they need to be discussed at length. You can quickly observe that the map describing Analyze Case is substantially larger than the one used in Open Case. This is obviously explained by the fact that actual work to solve the problem is done in Analyze Case.