CasePro: The Consultant's Critical Thinking Approach to Case Analysis

CasePro: The Consultant's Critical Thinking Approach to Case Analysis introduces students to an efficient and effective tool for analyzing business and mastering case interviews. The CasePro tool is designed to help individuals build their critical thinking and reasoning skills and to demonstrate the proper use and integration of models, frameworks, and academic content.

CasePro offers a new approach to case analysis and interviewing that is iterative and stresses non-linear thinking involving hypothesis-driven diagnostic and solution formulation processes. Utilizing a proven process, the text helps readers assume the role of a consultant and navigate a variety of cases, case types, and situations, as well as the critical thoughts and processes necessary to efficiently analyze a case and reach a coherent conclusion and responsive solution. Readers learn how to discern and use the proper data to develop an appropriate diagnosis and create a problem statement. The book offers them the skillsets they need to communicate complex problems and responsive solutions to those problems. Dedicated chapters address the CasePro method, understanding business cases, the CasePro case analysis process, mastering live case interviews, and more.

Stressing the development of critical thought and application of the process in real-world scenarios, CasePro is an ideal resource for business students, human resource professionals, and educators who use cases in their course curriculum.

A former consulting principal in the global firms of KPMG and A. T. Kearney and the CEO of the Synergy Consulting Group, Inc., Professor Michael A. Mische has over 40 years of management consulting and teaching experience in strategic planning, mergers, organizational performance, and innovation. He has consulted to a variety of industries and organizations, including Fortune 1000 companies and prominent management consulting and investment banking firms, as well as national, state, and local governments.