Page 95 - CL How to Read a Case Study

The objective here is to gain a more detailed picture of what

is going on. What are the key issues to be resolved? How are

they to be prioritized? These may be answered by extending

the usefulness of the available information by combining

these in ways that create new information by constructing

for example:

This will allow you to begin making sense of the material by

reading and studying particular sections of it more

thoroughly. For example, at this point a broad approach

may be attempted through recourse to a simple + or -

scale rating of these areas. This helps to draw attention to

those areas, which immediately jump out as requiring

further attention.