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FRAMING THE PROBLEM

Managing
• Team
• Client
• Self

Intuition

Data

Analyzing Presenting
• Framing • Structure
• Designing • Buy-in
• Gathering
• Interpreting

he ability to frame business problems to make them suscepti-
Tble to rigorous fact-based analysis is one of the core skills of
a McKinsey consultant. More than that, it is the hallmark of
a McKinsey-ite: if you can’t solve problems in a structured,
hypothesis-driven manner, you’re unlikely to make it through the
door of the Firm.

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