Dusting off my old interview skills. Case study advice?

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Frameworks cannot replace good ideas but are a good way of organising good ideas.

As soon as I see someone using a very structured framework (which is not a bad thing) I’ll immediately test to see how flexible they can be and how good their underlying insight is. Those that can only restate the framework (and clearly do not actually understand the business problem) fail harder than those with good ideas but poor structure.

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Case in point

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Ok great I have that. Anything else?

Keep it one page.

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Remember what you know. Best practices, trends you have seen etc. And be creative! (but not ridiculous at the same time..)

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Is case in point actually that good? What about Victor Cheng’s book?

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Actually think about the problem and the solution before resorting to the frameworks in those books. Critical thinking over frameworks

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