n day-to-day work, consultants often use frameworks, or mental models, to organize information in a way that helps make sense of a problem. Frameworks can help solve business problems, identify strategic advantages, or analyze competitors. Mutually Exclusive, Collectively Exhaustiveor MECE for shortis a common framework example. In applying the MECE framework to solve a business problem, consultants sort all relevant details of an issue into buckets (or categories) that do not overlap (Mutually Exclu