Model Online / On-Site
Duration
Modules 4 modules

Course Objective & Scope

Asking an LLM to 'analyze this market' or 'evaluate our project plan' typically returns textbook clichés and shallow bullet points. Rigorous analysis requires embedding structured analytical frameworks, explicit evaluation criteria, and adversarial reasoning directly into your prompts.

This course teaches business analysts, strategists, and managers how to translate classic consulting and decision-making frameworks—including MECE decomposition, Root Cause Analysis, First Principles, Pre-Mortem simulations, and Red-Team critiques—into high-precision analytical prompts.

Who Should Attend?

  • Strategy, business development, corporate planning, product management, and internal consulting teams
  • Business and financial analysts conducting feasibility studies, root-cause investigations, or market evaluations
  • Managers preparing option papers and strategic recommendations for executive leadership
  • Basic familiarity with prompting is recommended

Key Takeaways

  • Replace generic 'analyze this' prompts with structured MECE, PESTEL, Porter's Five Forces, and TOWS frameworks
  • Neutralize model sycophancy to surface hidden assumptions, cognitive biases, and logic flaws in business proposals
  • Engineer weighted multi-criteria decision matrices and trade-off analyses across competing strategic options
  • Run Pre-Mortem failure simulations and second/third-order consequence analyses before launching initiatives
  • Structure analytical outputs cleanly along the 'Evidence → Implication → So What → Recommendation' chain

Curriculum

Encoding Analytical Frameworks into Prompts
  • Why open-ended 'analyze this' prompts yield textbook platitudes—and how structural constraints force depth
  • Applying MECE (Mutually Exclusive, Collectively Exhaustive) issue trees to break down ambiguous problems
  • Turning passive SWOT lists into actionable TOWS matrices, Porter's Five Forces, and Value Chain diagnostics
Root Cause, First Principles, and Second-Order Consequence Prompts
  • Separating symptoms from underlying drivers using structured 5 Whys and Fishbone (Ishikawa) prompts
  • Applying First Principles decomposition to strip away legacy industry assumptions
  • Mapping second- and third-order knock-on effects of pricing, policy, or operational changes
Adversarial Reasoning: Red-Teaming, Pre-Mortems, and Scenarios
  • Overcoming LLM sycophancy: forcing objective critique and exposing unstated assumptions
  • Running Pre-Mortem simulations ('Imagine this launch failed in 12 months—write the post-mortem')
  • Steelmanning competing viewpoints and building 2x2 uncertainty scenario matrices with leading indicators
Weighted Decision Matrices and Executive Analysis Workshop
  • Constructing weighted multi-criteria trade-off tables across cost, feasibility, risk, and strategic fit
  • Enforcing the 'Observation → Evidence → So What? → Actionable Recommendation' narrative chain
  • Workshop: Building a reusable Analytical Prompt Toolkit for an active strategic decision in your unit

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