Want to Elevate Your Strategy Game?

Ask Yourself These 18 Essential Questions

Evaluate Your Current Strategy

1. What is our strategy and to what extent is it being followed?
2. How can we better communicate our strategy to various stakeholders?
3. What strategic tensions exist and what can we learn from them?
4. How well is our strategy performing relative to our expectations?
5. How well do we think our strategy positions us for the future?
6. What are the big opportunities and threats to our current strategy?

Design and Choose Your Options

1. How can we creatively and dramatically expand the set of alternative strategies under consideration?
2. How can we best consider different business models?
3. How can we build the ability to deal with uncertainty into our strategy?
4. How do we frame choices in a way that prevents paralysis?
5. How can we drive to ‘final’ choices?
6. What are the key assumptions underlying our choices?

Activate Your Strategy

1. How can we translate our new strategy into a discrete set of high-impact, actionable initiatives?
2. What are the specific areas of transformation implied by the new strategy?
3. How prepared is the organization to effectively move towards the new strategy?
4. How do we best galvanize the organization?
5. How quickly can we move towards the new strategy?
6. How will we know whether our strategy implementation is on track?

Call to Action:

1. Review these questions and identify which ones resonate most with your current strategy needs.
2. Dig deep into the areas that challenge you: Current strategy, options, or activation.
3. Work through the answers to those questions.

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