Exploring scenarios through guided case studies

Purpose

The case study prompt serves as your launchpad for a deep dive into a real-world industry or professional scenario. This prompt will provide you with the essential details of a company facing a specific challenge. Your job is to analyse the situation, understand the context, and leverage your business knowledge to identify potential solutions and assess the best course of action. By working through the case study prompt, you'll gain valuable practice in applying business theories to practical situations, develop your critical thinking and problem-solving skills, and learn to make informed business decisions based on available data and insights.

Prompt

Note: The following prompts were tested in Microsoft Copilot for Web. It is most suitable for language based generative AI.

Make sure you modify the prompt below to suit your unit and concepts you'd like to review.

Act as a business consultant expert. I need to learn about the main problem of the case listed below, theories that are relevant to the case, and possible solutions. List it in bullet points for readability, include both pros and cons of the problem and impact.

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[Insert case study here]

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Explanation

The prompt gives AI a role (business consultant expert), a task (analyse problem, theories, and solutions), requirements (include pros and cons), and instructions (list in bullet points).

This prompt helps you to understand the main case and connect it to existing theories. Moreover, it gives you inspiration on the solutions. Treat the result as a starting point. Ensure to give more details and include academic resources.

Note the use of the triple quotation marks to surround the case study text. These triple quotation marks help the AI understand that the case study text is to be considered as one chunk of text.

Examples

The screenshot below demonstrates how the AI can help analyse study cases.