Source: Business School, McKinsey, “Bulletproof Problem Solving” by Charles Conn and Robert McLean When to use: On-going, always be building this out and updating it Purpose: Create a logical framework to make decisions and understand the impacts Only show the importance axis, then once completed draw the difficulty axis, then once the difficulty step is done move to the quadrants, then the waves. You don’t only want to quick wins, you want the strategic high importance items too.īonus tips - only draw what you need to for that time. Voila! Now to cap it all off, draw some ‘Waves’ to see the groups of what you want to do first. Now for each post-it move it up and down to show if it’s more or less difficult. Now move to the difficulty axis on the vertical. So you now have your importance locked down. Put one post-it down, then show another and ask if it’s more or less important than the previous one, and continue until you have all post-its ranked in importance from least important to most important, less important on the left, more important on the right Pretend you have all the resources in the world. This isn’t around business cases and long term roadmaps (although absolutely you could and should use this method), this is how to quickly decide on what you should do first, and even more importantly, what you shouldn’t do at all.Ĭreate each issue/opportunity/idea as a post-it, force rank them on the horizontal access. We have unlimited wants but limited means, so we need a quick way of managing this. It seems like an obvious question, but it isn’t asked often, and when it is there’s no structure to answering it.
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