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Do you feel that you already know all possible frameworks of business problem solving (Porter's five forces, the BCG-matrix etc.), yet you are still not confident in using them? Or maybe you already took a course on management consulting problem solving approach, but the jargon used didn't make much practical sense to you (The 80/20 rule, MECE etc.)? Whether you're a student studying for case interviews or a businessperson, what you might be lacking is a comprehensive aproach to problem solving that generates consistent results. 

If so, this course is for you! I can guarantee you will not find another such comprehensive introductory course on hypothesis-based problem solving - the top consulting firms' technique of choice on all kinds of business consulting engagements. 

With the content in this course I would like to introduce you to the topic of business problem solving. Provided you find this introduction helpful, I would be delighted to welcome you to my more advanced courses that I intend to publish soon. They will build on the knowledge from this course in order to develop further the topics covered here. 

But for now let's jump into this course. Hit Enroll and let me show you a way to become a rising star of problem solving in business!

Applicants to consulting firms studying for case interviews

Junior analysts and consultants starting their consulting career

Entrepreneurs starting their adventure with business

Managers, project managers and project team members who solve business problems in their workplace

Students (especially those attending business schools)

Everyone interested in learning a problem solving technique used by the top consulting firms

What is the aim of this course?

Time and again you will come across problems that are seemingly unsolvable. In many cases, you don’t even know how to approach them. Luckily, there are a lot of nice management consulting tools, techniques, and frameworks that will help you solve everyday problems. You don’t have to go to a top consulting firm to master them. You can master them by taking my course.

This course will help you drastically improve your skills in solving problems using management consulting tools, techniques, and frameworks. In this course, we will mainly concentrate on solving real-life problems like goal settings and defining what and when to do, estimating the cost of a wedding, losing weight and getting in shape, deciding whether to do an MBA or not, choosing the right boyfriend/girlfriend, deciding whether you should buy a car or not, deciding when to retire and many more. If you have a specific problem just let me know and I will give you tips on how to solve it using the tools presented in this course.

The course is designed for people who want to become more data-driven and less emotional in the way they solve problems and make decisions. Thanks to the course you will be making better decisions and solve problems that have seemed so far unsolvable. In the course you will learn 3 things:

What consulting techniques, tools, and frameworks there are

When to apply each and one of them

How to use them in practice including examples of how to calculate specific things in Excel

The course is based on my 15 years of experience as a consultant in top consulting companies and as a Board Member responsible for strategy, performance improvement, and turn-arounds in the biggest companies from Retail, FMCG, SMG, B2B, and services sector that I worked for. On the basis of what you will find in this course, I have trained over 100 consultants, business analysts, and managers who are now CEO, COO, Directors of Sales, Production, Investment Directors in PE funds, Directors in Consulting Companies, Board Members, etc. On top of that my courses on Udemy were already taken by more than 84 000 students including people working in EY, McKinsey, Walmart, Booz Allen Hamilton, Adidas, Naspers, Alvarez & Marsal, PwC, Dell, Walgreens, Orange, and many others.

I teach through cases, so for every tool, technique, and framework I provide an example, preferably in Excel, that shows you how to apply the knowledge in practice. To most of the lectures, you will find attached (in additional resources) Excel files shown in the lecture, so as a part of this course you will also get a library of ready-made analyses that can, with certain modifications, be applied by you in your work. If you are already working in Management Consulting this course will give you an advantage over your colleagues and will help you get to make better choices in your life.

Why did I decide to create this course?

Management consulting has been very creative and has produced or popularized the application of many tools, techniques, and frameworks that can be used to improve not a business but also your private life. By putting those tools and techniques in one course and explaining them using real-life examples related to everyday life, I wanted to make this knowledge available to everybody that wants to make better decisions, especially students that are considering joining Management Consulting firms as well as managers that simply need to expand their toolbox with few useful tools.

Things you will find in this course will improve your awareness and skills in analyzing problems that you will be facing in in private life as well as in business. Thanks to this course, you will know what tools, techniques, or frameworks to use and how to use them in practice.

To sum it up, I believe that if you want to make better decisions, solve faster problems in your private life you should master the techniques presented in this course. That is why I highly recommend this course not only to consultants or business analyst that have to advise their customers but also to everybody that wants to make better decisions in his or her life.

In what way will you benefit from this course?

The course is a practical, step by step guide loaded with tones of analyses, tricks, hints that will significantly improve the speed and efficiency with which you solve problems and make decisions. There is little theory – mainly examples, a lot of tips from my own experience as well as other notable examples worth mentioning. Our intention is that thanks to the course you will learn:

What management consulting tools, techniques, and frameworks are available

How to use them in practice to solve problems and make better decisions

How to make decisions and solve problems using available information/data

You can also ask me any question either through the discussion field or by messaging me directly in Udemy.

How the course is organized?

The course is divided into 4 sections and I will be adding new sections to address other important issues. Currently, you will find the following sections:

Introduction. We begin with a little intro into the course as well as some general info on production

Basic tools, techniques, and frameworks used by management consultants. In the second section, I will discuss the main tools that you can use to analyze and solve problems in real life. We will talk about things like: issue tree, bottom-up approach, top-down approach, backward reasoning, 80/20 rule, benchmarking, cost drivers, opportunity tree, and many, many more

Intermediate tools, techniques, and frameworks used by management consultants. In this section, I will discuss more advanced techniques such as: rankings, scenario analysis, representative element analysis, decision tree, OEE, OLE, the Theory of Constraints, Critical Chain, and many, many more

Advanced tools, techniques, and frameworks used by management consultants. In this section, I will discuss further more advanced techniques such as: simulation analysis, decomposition analysis, feasibility analysis, and sensitivity analysis

I will be adding new sections and lectures in the coming months

You will be able also to download many additional resources

Excels with analyses shown in the course

Presentation of slides show in the course

Links to additional presentations and movies

Links to books worth reading

At the end of my course, students will be able to…

Make better decisions

Analyze fast problems in your private life and business

Master management consulting tools, techniques, and frameworks

Apply the right elements from your management consulting toolbox

Find fast potential improvements in your life and achieve your goals

Prepare you to move on to intermediate level management consulting training

Calculate in Excel the impact of your decision on your life

Who should take this course? Who should not?

People interested in making better decisions based on data

Students that are considering becoming management consultants

Management Consultants

Business Analysts

Small and medium business owners

Startups founders

Managers

Students interested in making better decisions based on data

Students that are considering becoming management consultants

Management Consultants

Business Analysts

Small and medium business owners

Startups founders

Managers

What is the aim of this course?

One of the projects you will participate during your work in management consulting is the Performance Improvement Project. You will be hired by the owner or the Board of Directors to improve the business. Those projects are extremely interesting because you will be able to make a real change, create a new reality and improve part of the business or even the whole business. There are also very difficult as you have to not only analyze areas but also find ways to improve the current situation as well as, on some occasions, implement the change. The skills that you will learn during this sort of projects will be also very useful once you move to work for regular businesses or set-up your own firm. In this course I will show you how to deliver such projects fast and efficiently. In the course you will learn the following things:

How to conduct performance improvement projects

How to estimate in Excel savings and improvements

Where to look for performance improvements in FMCG and Retail

What frameworks can be used during performance improvement projects

This course is based on my 14 years of experience as a consultant in top consulting firms and as a Board Member responsible for strategy, performance improvement and turn-arounds in biggest firms from Retail, FMCG, SMG, B2B and services sectors that I worked for. I have carried or supervised over 90 different performance improvement projects in different industries that generated in total 2 billion of additional EBITDA.  On the basis of what you will find in this course I have trained in person over 100 consultants, business analysts and managers who now are Partners in PE and VC funds, Investment Directors and Business Analysts in PE and VC, Operational  Directors, COO, CRO, CEO, Directors in Consulting Companies, Board Members etc. On top of that my courses on Udemy were already taken by more than 40 000 students.

I teach through cases, so you will have a lot of lectures showing examples of analyses, tools and end-products of Performance Improvement Projects. To make the course more realistic and applicable we will go over a simplified overall case for performance improvement as well as through a number of typical analyses from Retail and FMCG. I will also show you the frameworks you should use during Performance Improvement Projects to conduct this sort of projects fast and efficiently.  To every lecture you will find attached (in additional resources) the Excels as well as additional presentations, materials shown in the lecture so as a part of this course you will also get a library of ready-made analyses that can, with certain modification, be applied by you in your work.

Why I decided to create this course?

Performance Improvement Projects differ greatly from other consulting projects. You have to not only analyze and come up with bright ideas but you quite often also have to implement them. Many Business Analysts and Management Consultants lack the frameworks as well as the fluency in analyzing the right thing fast to deliver the results the customers expects. This course will help you become an expert in the field of performance improvement which will be extremely useful not only in consulting but also later on when you become director or you move on to build your own business. By giving you exposure to real life cases and analyses I want to improve your skills in analyzing the right things fast and implementing the improvements that you have identified.  Thanks to this course, you will know what and how to do during a Performance Improvement Project to deliver ahead of deadlines high quality products.

To sum it up, the course will help you become an expert in Performance Improvement on level of McKinsey, BCG, Bain, PwC, Deloitte, EY and other top consulting firms. That is why, I highly recommend this course not only to Consultants or Business Analysts that have to advice their customer but also to Investment Directors working for PE, Directors as well as owners / founders of businesses that need better to improve their profitability and prepare for scaling.

 

In what way will you benefit from this course?

The course is a practical, step by step guide loaded with tones of analyses, tricks, hints that will significantly improve the speed with which you understand, analyze the business considered for acquisition. There is little theory – mainly examples, a lot of tips from my own experience as well as other notable examples worth mentioning. Our intention is that thanks to the course you will learn:

How to conduct performance improvement projects

How to estimate in Excel savings and improvements

Where to look for performance improvements in FMCG and Retail.

What frameworks can be used during performance improvement projects

You can also ask me any question either through the discussion field or by messaging me directly.

 

How the course is organized?

The course is divided currently in 5 sections. Currently you will find the following sections:

Introduction. We begin with little intro into the course as well as some general info how the course is organized

How to conduct Performance Improvement Projects. In the second section I will show you how such projects should be carried out to ensure that you deliver value to the customer fast and efficiently

A Case Study in Performance Improvement. In this section you will be asked to solve a case study in performance improvement. I will also show you the solution and the analyses in Excel. This section will give you a flavor of how the Performance Improvement Projects look like

Performance Improvement Projects in Retail. In the 4th section I show you      what kind of frameworks you should use during performance improvement      projects in Retail. You will also go through a number of real life analyses from Performance Improvement Projects in Retail.

Performance Improvement Projects in FMCG. In the 5th section I show you what kind of frameworks you should use during performance improvement projects in FMCG. You will also go through a number of real life analyses from Performance Improvement Projects in FMCG.

 

You will be able also to download many additional resources

Useful frameworks and techniques

List of resources useful during a performance improvement projects

Selected analyses shown in the course

Links to additional presentations, articles and movies

Links to books worth reading

 

At the end of my course, students will be able to…

Conduct a Performance Improvement Projects

Apply the right frameworks and techniques from your management consulting toolbox   

Find potential improvements in Retail and FMCG

Analyze in Excel potential improvements in Retail, FMCG on the level of McKinsey, BCG, Bain

Manage efficiently a consulting project devoted to performance improvement

Find ways to improve the business you manage

Who should take this course? Who should not?

Business Analysts

Management Consultants

Directors

Investment Analysts

Owners and founders

Financial Controllers

 

What will students need to know or do before starting this course?

Basic or intermediate Excel

Basic knowledge of economics or finance

Business Analysts

Management Consultants

Directors

Investment Analysts

Owners and founders

Financial Controllers