The analysis of case study evidence is one of the least developed
and most difficult aspects of doing case studies.Too many times, investigators
start case studies without having the foggiest notion about how the evidence
is to be analyzed (despite Chapter 3’s recommendation that the analytic
approaches be considered when developing the case study protocol). Such
investigations easily become stalled at the analytic stage; this author has
known colleagues who have simply ignored their case study data for month
after month, not knowing what to do with the evidence.