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Analyze and mitigate the bullwhip effect where demand variability amplifies upstream in supply chains. Use this skill when the user needs to diagnose order variability amplification, quantify the bullwhip ratio, or implement dampening strategies — even if they say 'why are our orders so volatile', 'supply chain variability', or 'demand amplification problem'.
Analyze business cycle phases (expansion, peak, contraction, trough) and their implications for business strategy and policy response. Use this skill when the user needs to identify the current economic phase, anticipate cyclical turning points, or adapt business strategy to macroeconomic cycles — even if they say 'are we heading into a recession', 'how should we prepare for a downturn', or 'when will the economy recover'.
Apply contract theory to design incentive-compatible agreements under moral hazard and adverse selection. Use this skill when the user needs to structure principal-agent contracts, evaluate compensation schemes, or analyze incomplete contract problems where parties cannot specify all contingencies ex ante.
Design production plans using MPS (Master Production Schedule), MRP (Material Requirements Planning), and capacity planning. Use this skill when the user needs to schedule production, plan material procurement, balance capacity with demand, or optimize production sequencing — even if they say 'we can't keep up with orders', 'when should we order materials', 'production scheduling', or 'how do we plan for next quarter's demand'.
Interpret the three core financial statements (income statement, balance sheet, cash flow statement) to assess business health and performance. Use this skill when the user needs to read financial statements, understand profitability vs cash flow, evaluate a company's financial position, or prepare for investor/board meetings — even if they say 'explain these financials', 'are we making money', 'read this annual report', or 'what do these numbers mean'.
Apply IRAC (Issue, Rule, Application, Conclusion) method for structured legal analysis. Use this skill when the user needs to analyze a legal question systematically, write a legal memo, evaluate whether a law applies to a situation, or structure a legal argument — even if they say 'does this law apply', 'analyze this legal issue', or 'write a legal analysis'.
Apply social capital theory (Putnam, Coleman, Bourdieu, Burt) to analyze how network structures and trust generate value or impose constraints. Use this skill when the user needs to evaluate bridging vs bonding capital, identify structural holes or network closure benefits, assess community or organizational trust dynamics, or when they ask 'how does our network create value', 'are we too insular', or 'where are the structural holes we can exploit'.
Apply governance theory to analyze multi-level, network, and collaborative governance arrangements beyond traditional government. Use this skill when the user needs to evaluate public-private partnerships, analyze multi-stakeholder governance structures, compare governance models across sectors, or assess institutional arrangements for collective decision-making — even if they say 'who governs this', 'public-private collaboration', or 'how are decisions made across organizations'.
Apply Granovetter's embeddedness theory to analyze how economic behavior is embedded in ongoing social relations, avoiding both over-socialized and under-socialized accounts. Use this skill when the user needs to explain why market transactions deviate from pure economic rationality, analyze how trust and social ties shape business dealings, evaluate structural vs relational embeddedness in inter-firm networks, or when they ask 'why do firms prefer existing partners over cheaper alternatives', 'how do social relationships shape economic outcomes', or 'is this market truly arms-length'.
Apply Bourdieu's field theory to analyze power relations through the interplay of field, capital, and habitus. Use this skill when the user needs to map positions and position-takings within a social field, analyze how different forms of capital (economic, cultural, social, symbolic) structure competition, explain why actors behave as they do within institutional settings, or when they ask 'why do people in this industry act this way', 'who has power and why', or 'how does this field reproduce inequality'.
Apply the Uppsala Internationalization Model to analyze gradual foreign market entry based on psychic distance and experiential learning. Use this skill when the user needs to plan a staged internationalization sequence, understand why firms enter culturally similar markets first, or evaluate whether a firm's international expansion follows the establishment chain from export to subsidiary.
Apply Bhaskar's critical realism to analyze phenomena through three ontological domains (real, actual, empirical), identify generative causal mechanisms via retroduction, and examine structure-agency interplay. Use this skill when the user needs to go beyond surface correlations to underlying causes, design research that distinguishes mechanisms from events from experiences, or when they ask 'what causes this beyond the observed pattern', 'what structures enable or constrain this behavior', or 'how do I move from correlation to causal explanation'.