You may not be interested in Strategy. But Strategy is interested in you.

 

Strategy is an intent or plan that precedes action. It is the chosen direction, or set of directions, we follow in our quest toward the fulfillment of our larger mission or purpose. The object of strategy is to bring about favorable conditions within which action will occur.

Strategic decisions determine the grand direction upon which a company will embark.

 
 

Welcome to Strategy Buddy!

Start Your Journey Here

Start your journey here. Using our introductory tools, we’ll Transform vague strategic confusion into crystal-clear challenge definition using structured templates that include strategic challenge statement, context, aspirations, key questions, and boundary conditions. Stop debating what the problem is—start solving it.

Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.
— Sun Tzu, The Art of War

Look Outside: External Threats & Opportunities

Know the enemy and know yourself. You'll need not fear the result of a hundred battles. ~~ Sun Tzu

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  • External Landscape
  • Competitor Landscape
  • Customer Landscape
 

Look Inside: Competitive Strengths & Weaknesses

Your brand, your capabilities, your advantages.

Strength & Weakness Indicator includes:

  • Current Positioning & Capability Assessment
  • Capability<->Opportunity Identifier
  • Implications for Strengthening Competitive Position
It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.
— Eugene Ionesco

Imagine Strategic Possibilities

If you can dream it, you can do it.

Adds clear value in helping to imagine possibilities that the user may not otherwise consider. For Big S decisions, ensures that ideas generated provide varied simultaneous combinations of where we will play and how we will win

The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do.
— Michael Porter
 

Evaluate Strategic Alternatives

The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do.

Output is a decision record that includes: the user’s decision(s), the decision rationale, What Would Have to Be True assumptions, and implications for Business Model design, Small s decisions, OpModel considerations, resource allocation, governance, execution effectiveness considerations, and ongoing testing and monitoring.

  • Imagine Strategic Possibilities
  • Evaluate Strategic Alternatives
  • Decide Strategic Moves

  • Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.
    — Napoleon Bonapart

    Decide Strategic Moves

    This AI-enabled tool serves as a decision-facilitator by asking great questions, reminding the user of key information and prior decisions, ensuring consistency and aligned decisions

    In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
    — Dwight D. Eisenhower

    Strengthen Execution Readiness

    Plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.

    Here you will find AI enabled tools and templates for:

    • Key Initiatives Planning
    • Operating Model Alignment Assistant
    • Resource & Investmant Prioritization
    We shape our buildings. Thereafter, they shape us.
    — Winston Churchill

    Execution & Engagement Roadmap

    "If you don't know where you are going, you'll end up someplace else"

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    • Strategic Implementation Architect
    • Stakeholder Engagement Planner

    Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action comes, stop thinking and go in.
    — Napoleon Bonaparte

    Daily Support Center

    If you don't know where you are going, you'll end up someplace else.

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    • Strategic Intelligence Radar
    • Strategic Communication Hub
    • DecisionBuddy for Everyday Decisions
    • Meeting Designer for Strategic Decision-making
    Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.- Sun Tzu
    — Sun Tzu, The Art of War
     

    Think Tank

    If you don't know where you are going, you'll end up someplace else

    Use these Artificial Intelligence tools to assist with your strategic decision-making:

    • Expert Advisor Roundtable (with Strategic Time Travel)
    • Decision Bias Guardian
    • Strategic War Gaming & Simulation Suite
    • Market Conditions Scenario Simulator
     
    The leader’s job is to find, recognize and secure the future.
    — unkown

    Personalization Studio

    Try not. You must do. Or, do not. There is no try ~~ Yoda

    Use these Artificial Intelligence tools to sharpen your Strategic Thinking and Decision-making:

    • Thinking Styles Adapter
    • Culture & Organizational DNA Adapter
    • Personal Coach for Strategy Acumen