Analytic thinking Frame: 66 Principles and Sqvid Principle _ Framework

Abstract: "66 law" refers to a way of observing things. Sqvid is a guide to how to analyze each problem clearly and visualize it in a visual way after we have observed the problem with the 66 rule. These two points can effectively help us to build the framework of analytical thinking. This article is selected from the "Quick Manual of data operation".

What is most important when we make a decision. Your answer is very likely to be "information". With sufficient information, we can make decisions more rationally, and the probability of making mistakes will be reduced. If you make multiple decisions, what is most important. Your answer may be "logical thinking ability". From a variety of options to synthesize the information, the logical relationship, and then make a series of decisions. That sounds a very right answer. So, what is the most important thing for a long time to make a continuous decision?
In fact, there are no absolute answers to the three questions above. In particular, the third, can only say that in order to ensure long-term high-quality decision-making, you need strong analytical thinking, and strong analytical thinking, must not be heuristic, it is necessary in a certain framework to establish a systematic analysis of thinking. In layman's sense, there is a routine. As work experience accumulates, the author finds that routines are more important than brains. The routine comes from the study, but also comes from the ponder.
Perhaps you will feel boring, but responsibly, can build suitable for their own analytical thinking framework, determines the future career height.
This is an analytic framework that the authors have recently come into contact with, from the back of the napkin, a small book that looks rather exotic, the author of which is American Dan Rom. This book claims that any business problem can be described clearly with a pen and a napkin. Although the author does not agree with this assertion, the book's Method of observing things (66 law) and the steps to analyze the problem (Sqvid principle) has really touched the author deeply. Although it is a visual thinking as the starting point of the book, but the part of its content into the analysis of the business problem framework, it is appropriate.
　　

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So-called "66 rule" refers to a way of observing things. When we look at something, we need to be from "WHO/What." "and" how much. "and" where. "and" when. "and" how. "and" why. "6 angles to understand. Answer these 6 questions accurately, show that we really see a thing in place, and only if a problem is observed thoroughly, can we begin to analyze the problem accurately.
Let's start with an easy to understand example of how to look at things with the 66 rule. As you enter the company, you look around and start looking at the office. There are a few young female colleagues and interns (WHO/What), two female colleagues and a male intern (how many), interns in the seat while two female colleagues in the pantry (where), now is 9:30 A.M. (when), the pantry people are laughing (how), The people in the seat were working on what (how), the two of the pantry were talking about the Korean dramas they were chasing last night (why), and the people in the seats were writing the meeting report (why) the tea-room boss should have written yesterday. By 6 angles, you will observe the morning office in detail.
to give a less intuitive example. You sit down in the office, turn on the data tracking software, watch the BI report on the day, and find that the number of active users dropped yesterday, so start looking at the data carefully. Number of active users (who/what) decreased by 15% (how many) per week the fall actually happened from the day before yesterday (when); you operate the software, the dimension of the drill, in the area of the dimension after drilling, you found that there is no regional differences; you've been drilling for a time point, The discovery was that the day before yesterday began to 10:00~11:00 the active user of this time period in the morning; After observing the user's usage behavior, you find that the number of users logged in at this point of time is not down, and the number of users who use it effectively drops dramatically (how) So you wonder if some technical glitch has caused the user to not use it effectively. You turn on the tracking data table that tracks the loading speed of the product, and find that the 10:00~11:00 loading rate is very slow in the last three days, causing the user to quit without using it (why).
Through the second example, you must sniff out the taste of data analysis. In fact, most of the data analysis is a logical observation. As long as the observation is in place, the basic data analysis is over.

What's the big name of "Sqvid"? It is actually "simple/Fine (simple/specific)" "Qualitative/Quantitative (qualitative/quantization)" "Vision/Execution (vision/validate)" "Individual/Contrast (individual/ Compare) "," Change/Status Quo (Delta/status) ". Sqvid is essentially a guide to how each problem is analyzed and visualized in a visual manner after we have observed the problem with the 66 rule. In Sqvid, each set of relative concepts needs to be selected when a specific problem is encountered. The author draws the figure in the book according to his own understanding, as shown in Figure 1. Friends who have read the original book do not laugh at the poor author's ability to draw.
　　　　　　　　　
Fig. 1 66 principle and application of Sqvid

How to apply it to the analysis of the problem. The first thing to do is to correspond some visual representations to the 66 rule. As shown in Figure 2, each step actually has a visual representation that is appropriate for itself. It is important to note that the observation of every commercial problem is bound to be observed with the 6 angles contained in the 66 law, but not every business problem needs to be sqvid and analyzed at every point. We only need to have selective application Sqvid.
　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
Fig. 2 66 laws and corresponding graphs

To take the example of the first observation office above, which of the sqvid is to be used. First of all, in the "WHO/What" link, we use the "Simple/fine" option of "fine", because we not only observe people, but also observe the gender, position, talking about the content and the content of the work. It can be said that the CEO's

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