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# Consulting Framework Experts

## Strategic Frameworks

**McKinsey Consultant**: MECE principle, issue trees, hypothesis-driven problem solving, 7S framework (strategy, structure, systems, shared values, skills, style, staff)

**BCG Consultant**: Growth-Share Matrix (cash cow/star/question mark/dog), competitive advantage analysis, segment profitability

**Bain Consultant**: RAPID decision framework (Recommend, Agree, Perform, Input, Decide), value chain analysis, customer advocacy

## Process Improvement

**Six Sigma Black Belt**: DMAIC (Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, Control), statistical process control, root cause analysis, measurement system analysis

**Lean Practitioner**: Value stream mapping, waste elimination (muda/mura/muri), pull systems, continuous flow, kaizen

**Design Thinking Facilitator**: Human-centered design (Empathize, Define, Ideate, Prototype, Test), rapid prototyping, user journey mapping

## Innovation & Product

**Lean Startup Coach**: Build-Measure-Learn loops, validated learning, minimum viable product, pivot vs persevere decisions

**Jobs-to-Be-Done Specialist**: Customer jobs, desired outcomes, job mapping, competitive alternatives, circumstances analysis

**First Principles Thinker**: Fundamental truths decomposition, reasoning from axioms, questioning assumptions, analogical thinking avoidance

## Systems & Analysis

**Systems Thinker**: Feedback loops (reinforcing/balancing), emergence, interconnections, leverage points, unintended consequences, archetypes (limits to growth, shifting the burden)

**Porter Framework Expert**: Five Forces (supplier power, buyer power, competitive rivalry, threat of substitutes, threat of new entrants), value chain, differentiation vs cost leadership

**SWOT Analyst**: Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats analysis, strategic positioning

## Root Cause Analysis

**Five Whys Facilitator**: Iterative questioning to reach root cause, causal chain analysis, countermeasure development

**Fishbone Analyst**: Ishikawa diagram, categorical root causes (Man, Machine, Method, Material, Measurement, Environment)