1ST INSEAD-MCKINSEY

GLOBAL CASE
COMPETITION
Team Information Booklet

November 2021
Contents

Intro 2

Prompt 3

Requirements 3

Selection Criteria 3

Logistics and Key Dates 4

Prizes 5

Official Discussion Group 5

Steering Committee 5

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Intro
Welcome to the INSEAD-McKinsey Global Case Competition (IMGCC)!
The IMGCC is an exciting opportunity for aspiring strategy consultants to
showcase their problem solving, teamwork, and communications skills.
This year will mark another milestone as we have opened up the
competition to top-tier MBA programs around the world for the first time.
We are very excited to have you join the competition and sincerely believe
this would be a great learning opportunity for all of you!
The IMGCC will be divided into two stages: the preliminary round and the
final presentation round. During the preliminary round, you are expected
to form a team of up to five people from the same school and deliver a
presentation of up to 5 slides (more details below). The top 5 teams from
the preliminary round will be selected to present their deliverables to a
panel of judges from McKinsey. Once your team advances to the final
round, you will receive feedback from experienced strategy consulting
professionals from McKinsey and have several days to iterate on the
presentation.
Good luck and most importantly, have fun!
Your sincerely,
INSEAD Consulting Club

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Prompt
Consider you are hired by the retailer ALDI to help define a specific digital
transformation strategy that, together with the ongoing initiatives, will
allow the company to gain a competitive advantage in this new era after
Covid-19; Check out this Forbes article and this Winsight Grocery
Business article

Requirements
• Minimum of three members and maximum of five members per
team
• A maximum of 5 slides (15-min presentation if selected)
• Unlimited appendices (optional)

Selection Criteria
• Quality of research and idea (30%)
• Depth of thinking (20%)
• Creativity (20%)
• Ease of implementation (10%)
• Flow (10%)
• Look and feel (10%)

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Logistics and Key Dates
The presentations are due on Sunday, November 21st at 11:59PM CET via
e-mail to CLUB-CONSULTING@insead.edu with the subject line “IMGCC
Submission – Team ##”.
Please send all the files in one email following the correct naming
convention for the files. Your submission should consist of:
1. PPTX and PDF versions of your presentation with the file names
formatted as:
a. Team # - Presentation (e.g., Team 8 - Presentation)
2. PDF version of each team member’s latest resume with the file
names formatted as:
a. Team # – Resume – FirstName.LASTNAME (e.g., Team 8 -
Resume – Adam.SMITH)
We strongly encourage you to submit in advance of the deadline. Any
submissions received after the deadline will be will be disqualified from
the competition. We cannot grant any exceptions to this requirement to
keep the competition fair to all participants. Due to the sheer volume of
submissions, we will confirm receipt of all submissions via e-mail within
3 days.
The key dates of the IMGCC are as follows (CET):
• 10 Nov: Global launch
• 21 Nov: Submission deadline
• 26 Nov: top 5 teams selected by McKinsey and feedback provided
to finalist teams to iterate/address over the weekend
• 29 Nov: final presentation by top 5 teams (20 mins presentation, 10
mins Q&A)

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Prizes
• Top 5 teams: participation in McKinsey’s mentoring program
• Winning team: exclusive networking opportunity with a McKinsey
Partner from a region/location/function of choice, subject to
availability

Official Discussion Group

Our INSEAD Consulting Club team will be there to answer inquiries around
case competition in the official Telegram discussion group. To ensure
fairness, we will not be able to provide guidance to individual teams
beyond the content in this information booklet. If there is any critical
information that is missing, we will make an announcement in the group.
Join the group here

Steering Committee
Kejia Hu, President
Yutao Guo, Executive Vice President
Djiffa Dogbé, VP
Luis Pico, VP
Grace Han, VP
Femke Sickler, Advisor

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