Tools For Strategic Analysis Fixed Today

What is the most useless "strategic tool" you’ve been forced to use in a corporate meeting? (Mine is the 80-slide PowerPoint deck that could have been an email).

P.S. I love a good SWOT for a 30-second sanity check. But please, don't print it on a poster. Your wall deserves better.

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Stop Playing Chess with a Hammer: Why Your Strategy Needs Better Tools

If you walk into your next planning session with only a SWOT, you are bringing a hammer to a chess match. tools for strategic analysis

Strategy isn’t about filling out templates. It’s about navigating chaos. And in 2024, chaos is the default setting. So, let’s put down the crayons and pick up the scalpel. Here are three underrated (or misused) strategic analysis tools that will actually help you see around corners. Most analysis is retrospective. We look at what did happen. But the most valuable analysis looks at what hasn't happened yet —but might.

Gather your team. Imagine it is 18 months from now. Your strategy has failed. Spectacularly. Write the headline: "Project Titan Crashes: $10M lost to [X]." What is the most useless "strategic tool" you’ve

The Blue Ocean Strategy canvas is a 2x2 grid that forces you to stop benchmarking competitors and start redefining the market.