For over 35 years, our Analytical Problem-Solving methodology has helped professionals structure complex problems, build hypotheses, and present high-impact recommendations, and this process will soon be available with an interactive, real-time Agentic AI coach. 

→ In a world where anyone can generate an answer with AI, APS is the discipline that tells you whether the output is accurate. 

Over 15,771 alumni have graduated from our Analytical Problem-Solving programme.

For our APS Alumni

You know the framework. Now scale this discipline across your organisation.

  • Revisit the modules whenever you need a refresher – before a critical client presentation, a project kick-off, or simply when a framework needs a dusting off.
  • Bring the same discipline to your wider team. Junior staff and cross-functional partners can work through the exact structured thinking frameworks you learned in the live programme, at their own pace.
  • A facilitator’s rigour, without the diary clash. The embedded AI coach asks the same probing questions you’d expect from a live session, available whenever you need it.
  • Use the same structured logic at the core of our APS process to sense-check AI-generated analysis, proposals and recommendations, before they reach a client or your leadership team.

For New Leaders, Teams and Professionals

Master the problem-solving toolkit used by the world’s top consulting firms.

  • Build the hypothesis-driven mindset that sets top performers apart from day one. This is the same analytical thinking that underpins high performance across the world’s leading professional services firms.
  • Learn on your own schedule, without losing the feedback that makes it stick. Complex problem structuring and executive storytelling, worked through at your own pace.
  • Go beyond watching a video. Work through real-life scenarios and get real-time feedback from an AI coach educated with 35 years of Openside methodology.
  • The APS programme gives you a consistent way to critically assess AI-generated outputs with the same rigour you’d apply to your own analysis.

Real-world application  

Analytical thinking isn’t theoretical – it’s operational. Here is how leading firms and individuals apply the APS methodology: 

Consulting & Professional Services 

Firms use analytical thinking to deconstruct complex client briefs, structure multi-stream engagements, build airtight logic diagrams, and deliver recommendations that drive senior buy-in, including deciphering and sense-checking AI-generated outputs before they go in front of a client. 

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Consumer Goods

These organisations use analytical thinking to navigate market volatility, optimise trade spend, organise complex innovation portfolios, and streamline internal presentation decks to secure cross-functional budget approval. 

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Project and Innovation Leaders 

Teams use analytical thinking to structure multi-disciplinary innovation projects, align disparate stakeholders around shared hypotheses, and reduce friction during execution. 

Students and Graduates

Aspiring professionals use the APS process as a gold-standard benchmark to master best practices and hit the ground running in management consulting, including learning to critically assess AI-assisted research and case prep rather than taking it at face value. 

  • Consulting or Advisory roles
  • Internal consulting roles
  • Analytics & Customer Excellence teams
  • Supply Chain Strategies team, especially for new starters
  • Anyone who works on strategic projects
  • Colleagues doing project work
  • Planning teams
  • Everyone can have this training. It can apply to Marketing teams when creativity does not have the right hypothesis

“The programme was a great learning experience that challenged my normal approach to framing problems /opportunities.”

Internal Consulting Group
Global Business Analyst

“An enriching experience to learn and put into practice new methodologies.”

Big-Four Global Professional Services Firm
Consultant

“What stood out was every module exercise mirrored real-world consulting scenarios, helping me refine the analytical skills I’ll use in future projects, internships and client engagements.”

University Student
Hafsa Muhammad

“I have found this training is much more relevant to what we are doing with simple but great tools to navigate us.”

Consumer Goods Company
Brand Manager