Here is a high-level overview of what I do.

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Before the meeting
Each analyst is given a client/issue brief to describe the problem in detail. We have analysts answer the following 5 questions:

What is the main problem you are trying to solve?
What have you already seen or tried?
What haven't you tried that you think might help?
What other context can you provide that would help solve this problem?
After all client briefs are filled out and approximately 1-2 days before the half-day strategy meeting I will share all completed briefs with the team so they can familiarize themselves with the issues and belize number data to the meeting with ideas.

Meeting day
Each analyst will have up to an hour to discuss their problem with the team. After that, the team will dive deep into solving it. During the 60-minute break, ideas will be discussed, analysts will put on their nerd hats and dive deep into analytics or code to solve the problems. All team members are working towards the same goal and that is to solve the problem.

Once the problems are solved, the analyst who first outlined the problem will read the solutions or ideas to solve the problem. It may not take the full 60 minutes to arrive at a solution. Whether it takes the full time or after one problem is solved, another team member announces their problem and the team goes over it again.