The ConsultantCafe underground map with 80+ methods, frameworks and the like
Every consultant has a method drawer. Mine became a London Tube map with 89 stations across several lines in one slightly nerdy ride. Mind the methodology gap.
I have a little confession.
I keep a database of consulting methods, models, tools, techniques, templates and other professional bits of cutlery. The confession relates to both the database bit (I am a bit of a geek when it comes to these things) and that list of things I keep.
It started as a reference list for ConsultantCafé and the upcoming ConsultantCafe Cards Im developing. It keeps growing every day. Every time I come across a useful method, I add it.
For a year or so, I have been feeding the data into different AI tools and asking them to create a London Underground style map of consulting methods. Up until now, every model has failed.
This week I tried Claude Fable. And, blow me down, it worked. It created the ConsultantCafé Underground. A map of methods, grouped into lines for strategy, project delivery, business analysis, governance and risk, change management, service operations, learning and improvement, consulting craft, and more.
This map is not a curriculum. Consultants do not need to memorise every station. They need to know which line they are on, where the interchanges are, and when they have accidentally travelled three stops past the client’s problem.
It is not perfect, but good enough to share for your reaction. So here it is. The ConsultantCafé Underground.
A bit of fun. A bit useful.
How many tracks on the ConsultantCafe underground have you ridden? How many of these stops have you stopped at? What should I add?
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Disclamer: Only a few of these methods, frameworks, Bodies of Knowledge are mine. The rest are copyrighted to others.
