Mission 4: Escape The Meeting Room

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BA Detective Academy · NovaTech Solutions

Your briefing:

You have been locked in a post-mortem meeting for 90 minutes. NovaTech's revenue dropped 30% last quarter and nobody can agree on why.

The team keeps blaming symptoms — "the website", "the team", "the market". No one has found the actual root cause. And until someone does, you are all stuck in here.

Collect evidence from 4 sources around the room. Once you have read all 4, you will be asked to diagnose the root cause. Get it right and you can leave.

A symptom is what you can see. A root cause is why it happened. Only fixing the root cause actually solves the problem.

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🔒 Meeting Room 3B — NovaTech HQ

Read all 4 evidence sources to unlock the diagnosis panel

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Email Thread

Support team chain — last 30 days

✓ Read

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Revenue Report

Q3 breakdown by channel

✓ Read

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Meeting Notes

IT incident log — Sept

✓ Read

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Analytics Dashboard

Funnel data — Aug vs Sept

✓ Read

Read all 4 sources to unlock the diagnosis

🔍 Make Your Diagnosis

Based on the evidence you have gathered, what was the root cause of NovaTech's 30% revenue drop?

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Benjamen Walsh

Founder, BBA Institute · Certified Business Analyst

Benjamen Walsh is the founder of the Better Business Analysis Institute (BBAI) and a practising business analyst with over a decade of experience delivering change across New Zealand and Australia. He has trained over 200+ business analysts through BBAI certification programmes and hosts The Better Business Analyst Podcast (138+ episodes). Benjamen works with organisations including Corporates, Consultancies, Non for Profits, Small Businesses and the New Zealand Government.

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