{"id":271,"date":"2012-04-15T23:45:09","date_gmt":"2012-04-16T06:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/workasone.wordpress.com\/?p=271"},"modified":"2023-09-02T09:17:33","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T16:17:33","slug":"mckinseys-mece","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghosh.com\/blog\/mckinseys-mece\/","title":{"rendered":"McKinsey&#8217;s MECE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Forgive me if I&#8217;m stating something obvious.\u00a0 I&#8217;m just surprised how often I see people (in all kinds of situations) make recommendations without providing any rationale behind their recommendations.\u00a0 IMHO, this makes recommendations, and all the hard work and thought that went into them, virtually meaningless.\u00a0 Always frame the problem first and start with the primary objective.<\/p>\n<p>Marquee consulting firm McKinsey has an approach to problem framing called &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/MECE_principle\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MECE<\/a>&#8220;.\u00a0 This refers to &#8220;Mutually Exclusive and Collectively Exhaustive.&#8221;\u00a0 The value is more in the philosophy than a specific approach.\u00a0 Implementation can be done in many ways (outlines, graphics, mindmaps, etc.).\u00a0 The key is achieving the MECE framing objective.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forgive me if I&#8217;m stating something obvious.\u00a0 I&#8217;m just surprised how often I see people (in all kinds of situations) make recommendations without providing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghosh.com\/blog\/mckinseys-mece\/\"> [&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":494,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-problem-solving","category-startups"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghosh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghosh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghosh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghosh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghosh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghosh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":495,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghosh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271\/revisions\/495"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghosh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghosh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghosh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghosh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}