Case Study Analysis: An opportunity to illustrate your product or service in action

Posted by John Smith on May 17th, 2018

Many are limited to just one page a brevity that makes them especially useful as trade show handouts, direct mail inserts, supplemental pages to Web sites, and as sales collateral that can be faxed to hot prospects. Most are conveniently divided into three or four labeled sections that telegraph the Case Analysis structure to readers, guiding them quickly to the happy ending. These labels go under any number of names, but for our purposes, I'll stick to three: Challenge, Solution, and Result.

Writing a case study solution is perhaps the most difficult academic task. Perhaps this is the reason, Case Study Analysis are generally assigned to Masters' level students - most commonly MBA students. Case study analysis requires application of the concepts of the course to a real life problem, which is presented in the form of a case solution. Students find it particularly challenging since real life cases are not as simple as an end-of-chapter exercise. In real life situations, problems are not clearly defined, data for the solution is not clearly defined and real life problems do not pertain to a single discipline.