Strategy Consulting · Virtual Experience

Overview

Virtual strategy consulting simulation focused on framing ambiguous problems, prioritising opportunities, and communicating insights with a client-ready storyline.

What I Worked on

• Scoped a client problem into clear hypotheses, success metrics, and workstreams.
• Mapped stakeholders / pain points and turned them into prioritised opportunity areas.
• Built quick, defensible analyses (assumptions, sanity checks) to inform options.
• Structured a concise narrative and crafted slides for a client update.

Takeaways

Biggest takeaway: structure consistently beats volume. • Problem framing: Turning an ambiguous brief into a sharp problem statement + success metric aligned the team fast and prevented rabbit holes. • Prioritisation: Using MECE to lay out drivers, then applying a simple impact × feasibility filter, helped surface the 2–3 moves that actually mattered. • Assumption math: Lightweight models (ranges, sensitivity checks, sanity baselines) were often more useful than heavy spreadsheets — they gave clarity without slowing us down. • Storylining: Framing everything as “insight → implication → next step” made slides easier to digest and action-oriented. • Client communication: Learned to be decisive while still transparent about uncertainty — acknowledge gaps, but still recommend a path forward. If I repeated this, I’d add: 1) a red/amber/green risk heatmap tied to each option’s leading indicators, and 2) a short 2-week experiment plan to validate the riskiest assumption cheaply before scaling.