Hacking the Case Interview Flashcards
1
Q
The 8 buckets?
A
- Market attractiveness
- Competitive landscape
- Company attractiveness or capabilities
- Customer segmentation and customer needs
- Financial considerations
- Risks and mitigations
- Synergies
- Create your own bucket
2
Q
What is market attractiveness?
A
- Anything about the market goes into this bucket.
- What is the market size
- Market growth rate
- Average profit margins?
- Major trends/changes in the market?
- new technologies
- new regulations?
- Is the market developing or mature
- Is the market convergng with another market?
3
Q
Competitive landscape
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- Who are the competitors
- How much market share does each player have?
- What products do competitors sell?
- What capabilities do they have?
- What do competitors do to differentiate themselves from the other players?
- What are the barriers to entry?
4
Q
Company attractiveness/company capabilities
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- What line of products does this company offer?
- What ways do the products differntiate themselves from other products?
- How much market share does the compnay have,
- How profitable is the company?
- What distribution channels does the company have?
- What partnerships does the company have?
- How much buying power does the company have?
- What ist he go-to-market strategy?
- In what geographic regions is the company based in?
- Is the company growing or declining?
5
Q
Customer segmentation and needs
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- What are the different customer segments?
- What are the characteristics of each customer segment?
- What are the needs/preferences of each customer segment?
- how are customers changing in each customer segment?
- how profitableis each customer segment?
6
Q
Financial considerations?
A
- Is the implication of this business decision profitable?
- What are the different revenue elements?
- What are the different revenue elements?
- What are the different cost elements?
- How can we increase revenues?
- What is the pricing strategy?
- How long until we breakeven?
- What is the cost of acquisition?
- What is the financial exit-strategy of this business decision?
7
Q
Synergies
A
Anything about synergies between two products or two companies
- What are the possible revenue synergies?
- What are the possible cost synergies?
- Are synergies realizable?
- How long will realizing these synergies take?
8
Q
Risks and mitigations?
A
- This is a versatile bucket that you can use in frameworks where you need one more bucket but cannto think of one.
- What are the risks of this business decision?
- What is the likely impact of such risks?
- Can these risks be mitigated?
