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name: consulting-frameworks
description: >
- Core consulting thinking frameworks and methodologies for structuring
- business problems, communicating findings, analyzing strategy, building
- financial models, and designing operations. Use when any agent or command
- needs to apply MECE decomposition, pyramid principle, hypothesis-driven
- analysis, issue trees, SCR communication, Porter's Five Forces,
- TAM/SAM/SOM market sizing, value chain analysis, NPV/IRR decision
- criteria, build/buy/partner evaluation, RACI matrices, synergy sizing,
- valuation triangulation, price-volume-mix decomposition, discount
- waterfalls, or any standard consulting framework. This skill provides
- procedural guidance — not just framework names, but how to apply them
- correctly.
+ How-to guidance for consulting frameworks: MECE problem structuring, issue
+ trees, hypothesis-driven analysis, the pyramid principle and SCR, action
+ titles, Porter's Five Forces, TAM/SAM/SOM, value chain, NPV/IRR and
+ build/buy/partner, RACI and operating models, synergy sizing and valuation
+ triangulation, price-volume-mix, Van Westendorp and discount waterfalls. Use
+ when the user asks how to apply or choose a framework ("how do I run a Van
+ Westendorp survey?", "what's a MECE way to cut our cost base?"), or wants a
+ framework-level check of their own work. To produce a finished deliverable,
+ the matching slash command (/issue-tree, /market-size, /storyline, ...) is
+ the faster path. Not for real-estate deal analysis (real-estate-investment).
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# Consulting Frameworks
- Select the reference file matching your task. Each contains procedural guidance, application steps, quality checks, and examples.
+ Select the reference file matching the task. Each has procedural guidance, application steps, quality checks and examples. `references/quality-bar.md` is the sourcing and review standard every deliverable in this plugin is held to.
## Framework Selection Guide
| Task | Reference File | Key Frameworks |
|------|---------------|----------------|
| Decompose a problem, build an issue tree, structure hypotheses | [references/structuring.md](references/structuring.md) | MECE, Issue Trees, Hypothesis-Driven |
| Write executive summaries, build storylines, craft action titles | [references/communication.md](references/communication.md) | Pyramid Principle, SCR, Action Titles |
| Analyze markets, competitive dynamics, or growth options | [references/strategy.md](references/strategy.md) | Porter's Five Forces, TAM/SAM/SOM, Value Chain, 3 Horizons, Ansoff |
| Build business cases, evaluate investments, model costs | [references/financial.md](references/financial.md) | NPV/IRR, Build/Buy/Partner, Zero-Based Budgeting, Should-Cost |
| Design accountability structures, operating models, processes | [references/operational.md](references/operational.md) | RACI, Operating Model Canvas, Spans & Layers, Lean/Six Sigma |
| Size synergies, triangulate valuations, screen deals, frame DD findings | [references/ma-and-dd.md](references/ma-and-dd.md) | Synergy Sizing & Phasing, Valuation Triangulation, Integration Cost Benchmarks, Red-Flag Taxonomy, Deal-Breaker vs. Price-Chip |
| Set or diagnose pricing, decompose revenue growth, estimate elasticity | [references/pricing.md](references/pricing.md) | Price-Volume-Mix, Van Westendorp, Conjoint, EDLP vs. Hi-Lo, Elasticity Estimation, B2B Discount Waterfall |
## Cross-Framework Patterns
Most consulting deliverables combine multiple frameworks:
- **Market sizing** = TAM/SAM/SOM (strategy) + MECE segmentation (structuring) + Pyramid Principle (communication)
- **Due diligence** = Porter's Five Forces (strategy) + Issue Tree (structuring) + NPV/IRR (financial) + Red-Flag Taxonomy (ma-and-dd)
- **Business case** = Build/Buy/Partner (financial) + RACI (operational) + SCR (communication)
- **Transformation roadmap** = Operating Model (operational) + 3 Horizons (strategy) + Hypothesis-Driven (structuring)
- **Deal evaluation** = Synergy Sizing + Valuation Triangulation (ma-and-dd) + NPV/IRR (financial) + Deal-Breaker vs. Price-Chip framing (ma-and-dd)
- **Pricing diagnostic** = Price-Volume-Mix + B2B Discount Waterfall (pricing) + Porter's Five Forces (strategy) + SCR (communication)
Read the primary reference file for your task, then pull from adjacent files as needed.