19. Linchpin Analysis
Linchpin Analysis is a highly adaptable, logic structuring technique that is intended to minimize mistakes and promote clarity. It is driven from basic assumptions that an analyst would include regarding the competition and a rival’s proposed actions. To develop predictions with a high degree of confidence, careful attention is required when selecting the factors deemed most likely to drive and determine the outcome of a situation on which there is a dearth of strong empirical evidence. It even works with complex arguments containing variables about which there is a high degree of uncertainty.
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