STAR SYSTEM

From Success Case to Key Takeaway: Cultivating a Learning Habit Through Cross-Industry Examples

Gain business insights and develop the “Aha! Skill” from every angle—quickly and effectively.

To help learners recognize the importance of cross-industry case studies, understand the meaning of an Agility Mindset, and think like an entrepreneur.
To equip learners with business analysis skills, enabling them to identify key takeaways from various case studies.
To develop learners’ visual thinking skills and their ability to craft clear and concise key messages.

What is Business Resilience? – Understanding the mindset of adaptability and perseverance in the face of business challenges.
6 Thinking Roles – Gaining a holistic perspective by stepping into the shoes of a C-level executive.

From Key Takeaway to Application: “Think creatively, compare insights, imagine solutions to challenges, and adapt them to your own context.”

Enable learners to apply key takeaways from other industries to their own businesses and develop comparative thinking skills—recognizing common patterns across different industries and identifying weak signals in business trends.
Equip learners with creativity prompts to tackle business challenges, unlocking new solutions they may have never considered before.
Cultivate an open mindset towards change, breaking free from existing problems through thought experiments—exploring new business directions, assessing potential, and taking bold action.

S.T.A.R. In-Action: A Framework for Analyzing and Learning from Case Studies
Creativity Prompts: Tools to Spark Creative Thinking

- Repurpose, Think Opposite, New Ways of Doing The Same Thing, Every Problem is An Opportunity, Think Aggregate

Action Triggers: Strategies for Business Transformation & Potential Assessment

- Re-target, Re-position, Re-design, Re-measure, Re-align, Re-think
- FIT Reflection: A Process for Self-Assessment and Readiness Before Taking Action

From Knowledge to Skill: Train Until Mastery, Develop an Entrepreneurial Mindset.

To enable learners to develop pattern recognition skills through visual thinking and analyzing key takeaways from diverse business case studies.
To apply the scaffolding principle in developing business analytical skills systematically—progressing from simple to complex, from structured patterns to adaptability.
To help learners internalize key concepts and skills until they become a natural part of their thinking process, enhancing agility and resilience, like successful entrepreneurs.

Pattern Recognition Through Visual Thinking: Recognizing patterns of success and failure in business, connecting common elements across different industries, and building a business knowledge repository (Key Takeaways) for reference.
Scaffolding for Thinking: A step-by-step learning process, progressing from clear examples to complex cases, from analyzing given problems to formulating problems independently, and from structured challenges to handling uncertainty, while gradually reducing instructor support as skills develop.
From Internalization to Agility: Developing skills until they become second nature, absorbing information and concepts, applying knowledge automatically, enhancing business instincts, and fostering systematic out-of-the-box thinking through structured learning processes.
Entrepreneurial Thinking Habits: Developing mental agility until it becomes a habit, practicing repeatedly to achieve expertise with minimal effort, fostering a continuous learning culture, and embedding entrepreneurial skills into one’s identity through learning tools such as card-based exercises.