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TBM 332: The Last Strategy Framework You'll Ever Need
- Strategy frameworks are a collection of tools to determine and answer questions, organize and visualize the answers, and instructions on how to deploy the strategy.
- Different frameworks focus on different questions, contexts, business landscapes, experience levels, thinking styles and tolerance levels for messy thinking.
- Wardley Mapping (value chains plotted against stages of evolution) focuses on identifying areas for innovation, optimization or outsourcing, while Porter’s Five Forces emphasizes market positioning and competitive dynamics.
- Rumelt provides structure in the form of “the kernel” of strategy – diagnosis, guiding policy, and coherent actions – but avoids prescribing specific tools or processes.
- Strategy is hard due to the messy, dynamic, and human contexts in which frameworks are applied and the negotiation of narrative, identity, and power within the organization.
- It is about making choices together, accepting uncertainty and becoming agile.
- At Dotwork, a strategy campaign feature for design partners is being worked on, which aims to create a more collaborative and interactive strategy that teams can interact with.
- Interested in deploying strategy in your company? Check out the Dotwork product, operations and strategy campaign feature.
- Carey Caulfield is giving a course on Maven around organizing effective hackathons and innovation events, and you can check it out if that is your thing!
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