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Build a stronger research brief.

Twelve self-guided clinics for market, investment and evaluation decisions. Work through advanced practical methods, illustrated cases and self-assessments at your own pace.

Self-guided clinic · 14 min video

Market entry: from attainable demand to a staged decision

Estimate attainable demand with explicit conditional assumptions. Connect contribution, capacity and working capital to entry feasibility. Use sensitivity and the value of information to design a staged pilot.

16 slides · 6 knowledge checks · 2 applied tasks

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Self-guided clinic · 14 min video

Investment feasibility and downside testing

Reconstruct incremental project cash from operating assumptions. Calculate downside value, liquidity needs and switching values. Translate uncertainty into evidence requests and conditional investment decisions.

16 slides · 6 knowledge checks · 2 applied tasks

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Self-guided clinic · 14 min video

Evaluation design for credible causal claims

Define an estimand and defend a counterfactual comparison. Calculate and interpret DiD and complier effects with their assumptions. Connect uncertainty and incremental costs to a defensible decision.

16 slides · 6 knowledge checks · 2 applied tasks

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Self-guided clinic · 15 min video

Pricing evidence: design a test that measures profitable demand

Specify and estimate contribution per eligible offer in a price experiment. Distinguish demand response, elasticity and uncertainty about profit. Design a reproducible pricing decision with guardrails and segment discipline.

16 slides · 6 knowledge checks · 2 applied tasks

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Self-guided clinic · 14 min video

Commercial diligence: testing revenue quality

Reconcile reported revenue, corrected recognition, recurring activity and cash collections. Calculate cohort retention without contaminating the denominator with new customers. Design evidence tests that distinguish commercial risk from proven accounting error.

16 slides · 6 knowledge checks · 2 applied tasks

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Self-guided clinic · 14 min video

Financial model integrity

Integrate profit, working capital, cash, debt and balance-sheet movements. Diagnose errors with independent mechanical, economic and evidence controls. Test collection scenarios and document reproducible review findings.

16 slides · 6 knowledge checks · 2 applied tasks

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Self-guided clinic · 13 min video

Commercial site selection: from catchment evidence to a defensible decision

Design a catchment study with explicit observation units and sampling strata. Calculate anchored site scores and the preference threshold that reverses a ranking. Test operational viability and write an evidence-linked conditional recommendation.

16 slides · 6 knowledge checks · 2 applied tasks

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Self-guided clinic · 15 min video

Agribusiness value-chain economics: mass, margin and intervention value

Reconcile moisture-adjusted physical flows and calculate cost per saleable kilogram. Separate actor margins, chain resource costs and working-capital finance. Evaluate a loss-reduction intervention using incremental value and a credible measurement plan.

16 slides · 6 knowledge checks · 2 applied tasks

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Self-guided clinic · 13 min video

Lender evidence readiness

Reconcile cash available for repayment and calculate coverage and headroom. Test collection delays, downside debt capacity and borrowing-base availability. Prepare a traceable evidence index and a practical covenant-monitoring plan.

16 slides · 6 knowledge checks · 2 applied tasks

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Self-guided clinic · 15 min video

Management dashboards that support defensible decisions

Define reproducible indicators with an explicit observation grain and denominator. Diagnose composition reversals and calculate standardised rates. Connect uncertainty, data quality and action ownership in a dashboard.

16 slides · 6 knowledge checks · 2 applied tasks

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Self-guided clinic · 14 min video

Export expansion: route-to-market economics and execution risk

Build a landed-cost and channel-margin waterfall with explicit bases. Estimate net currency exposure and its effect on domestic contribution. Design an export pilot linking buyer evidence, payment, delivery and expansion gates.

16 slides · 6 knowledge checks · 2 applied tasks

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Self-guided clinic · 16 min video

Survey sampling and fieldwork quality for credible evidence

Translate a population question into a documented probability sample. Calculate precision allowances, design effects and defensible weights. Implement verification and hand over data for design-aware analysis.

16 slides · 6 knowledge checks · 2 applied tasks

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Bring a real decision to the discussion.

For a facilitated team workshop, share your audience, research question and preferred timing. Dates and a facilitator are confirmed directly before any event is booked.

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