StrategyMatrix / portfolioAnsoff’s matrix and product market gridHow can ansoff’s matrix and product market grid support strategic choice or positioning?The appropriate route to corporate growth depends on the risk the organisation can accept, its current portfolio of products and markets, and whether it intends to build around existing or new offers and customers. Systematic planning begins with a clear view of the distance between today’s position and the desired future one. The product/market grid and the later Ansoff cube help managers describe that gap and identify possible growth directions.
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StrategyMatrix / portfolioAnsoff’s matrix and product market gridHow can ansoff’s matrix and product market grid support strategic choice or positioning?The appropriate route to corporate growth depends on the risk the organisation can accept, its current portfolio of products and markets, and whether it intends to build around existing or new offers and customers. Systematic planning begins with a clear view of the distance between today’s position and the desired future one. The product/market grid and the later Ansoff cube help managers describe that gap and identify possible growth directions.
StrategyFramework / modelCreating value from mergers, acquisitions and alliancesHow can creating value from mergers, acquisitions and alliances support strategic choice or positioning?Use this assessment for every proposed merger, acquisition or alliance, from initial rationale through valuation and integration planning.
OperationsFramework / modelObjective-oriented project planning (OOPP)How can a team connect project activity to measurable outcomes, strategic purpose, evidence, and external assumptions?Use OOPP when a project is strategically important, involves several functions, or depends on behaviour and conditions that the delivery team cannot create directly. It is also useful when:
OperationsTemplate / formObjective-oriented project planning matrixHow should a team document and test the complete causal design of a project before and during delivery?
TemplateTemplate / formContracts Management PlanHow can contracts management plan improve people, teams, or organisational effectiveness?
OperationsMatrix / portfolioProbability/Impact MatrixHow can probability/impact matrix support strategic choice or positioning?Prioritise risks recorded in a programme risk register.
TemplateTemplate / formProgram Governance PlanHow can program governance plan support strategic choice or positioning?
MarketingFramework / modelPESTHow can pest support strategic choice or positioning?To assess four major macro factors that may shape a company’s future.
TemplateTemplate / formBenefits Realization PlanHow can benefits realization plan improve people, teams, or organisational effectiveness?
StrategyTemplate / formProduct strategy one-pagerWhich product strategy choices should guide priorities, trade-offs, and near-term moves?
TemplateTemplate / formProgram Risk Management PlanHow can program risk management plan improve people, teams, or organisational effectiveness?
Organisational behaviourFramework / modelStorytellingHow can storytelling improve people, teams, or organisational effectiveness?Weave an appropriate story into a conversation to disclose something about yourself, engage people in an idea, teach, solve a problem, sell an offer or focus attention on what matters at work.
StrategyFramework / modelSWOT analysisHow can swot analysis support strategic choice or positioning?Use SWOT to connect internal resources and capabilities with the competitive conditions around the organisation. It can support the development and selection of strategy, or any other decision for which the objective and scope have first been defined clearly.
TemplateTemplate / formProcurement Management PlanHow can procurement management plan support strategic choice or positioning?
InnovationFramework / modelStage gate new product developmentHow can stage gate new product development support strategic choice or positioning?Use a stage gate process to manage the development and launch of products, services, technologies or substantial product changes when:
StrategyTemplate / formCustomer-facing roadmap strategyWhat should a public or customer-facing roadmap communicate, to whom, and with what confidence?
MarketingFramework / model4Ps of marketing (Kotler)How can 4ps of marketing (kotler) support strategic choice or positioning?Marketing and sales connect the customer's perspective with the organization's. Reviewing the four elements reveals how the organization currently interacts with customers, how it could serve prospective customers and how its offer is positioned in their minds. The mix is a tactical toolkit within marketing strategy, and repeated adjustment helps the organization respond to changing needs in a chosen segment while supporting corporate strategy.
FinanceFramework / modelValuing the firmWhen and how should valuing the firm be applied?Estimate a defensible price for an acquisition or disposal.
TemplateTemplate / formProgram Management PlanHow can program management plan support strategic choice or positioning?
TemplateTemplate / formProgram Benefits Sustainment PlanHow can program benefits sustainment plan support strategic choice or positioning?
FinanceKPI / metricPrice quality strategyHow should price quality strategy be measured and interpreted?Guide positioning and pricing for a product or service.
TemplateTemplate / formProgram Review AgendaHow can program review agenda support strategic choice or positioning?
StrategyKPI / metricStrategic dialogueHow should strategic dialogue be measured and interpreted?Use strategic dialogue when an organisation must make and implement choices across functions, or when success depends on knowledge and commitment held by partners and stakeholders. It is particularly useful where analysis alone will not create shared understanding, yet leaders still need a disciplined path from exploration to decision and delivery.
TemplateTemplate / formProgram Performance ReportHow can program performance report support strategic choice or positioning?
StrategyFramework / modelGap analysisHow can gap analysis support strategic choice or positioning?To identify and improve an important area of underperformance.
StrategyFramework / modelRating competitive positionHow can rating competitive position support strategic choice or positioning?Use it after identifying customer purchasing criteria and deriving the key success factors for a defined market.
TemplateTemplate / formProgram Business CaseHow can program business case support strategic choice or positioning?
MarketingFramework / modelCompetitive intelligenceHow can competitive intelligence support strategic choice or positioning?Use CI to assess relative market strengths, weaknesses, intentions and vulnerabilities.
StrategyTemplate / formBlockchain technology (Tapscott)How can blockchain technology (tapscott) support strategic choice or positioning?When several parties need a shared record, have limited trust in one another and cannot rely efficiently on a single intermediary—but only after comparing blockchain with a conventional database.
StrategyProcess / methodProduct life cycleHow can product life cycle support strategic choice or positioning?Develop a long term product and portfolio strategy.
StrategyTemplate / formProduct strategy quality checklistDoes a product strategy make differentiated, evidence-backed choices rather than describe a vision or plan?
TemplateTemplate / formProgram Financial FrameworkWhen and how should program financial framework be applied?
MarketingFramework / modelAIDAHow can aida improve people, teams, or organisational effectiveness?To make marketing communications more effective from first exposure through response.
People & OrganisationTemplate / formLate-stage investor selection scorecardWhich funding source best fits the company's capital need, governance, strategy, and future path?
TemplateTemplate / formStakeholder RegisterHow can stakeholder register support strategic choice or positioning?
People & OrganisationTemplate / formVP Product role scorecardWhat must a VP Product deliver in strategy, talent, discipline, and cross-company process?
StrategyKPI / metricBlue ocean strategy (Kim and Mauborgne)How should blue ocean strategy (kim and mauborgne) be measured and interpreted?Use the approach when a red ocean position offers limited prospects for profitable growth. In their twenty fifteen work on “red ocean traps,” Kim and Mauborgne identified six mental models that obstruct market creation:
People & OrganisationTemplate / formBoard meeting preparation planHow should management prepare board members so meeting time is used for strategy and decisions?
FinanceFramework / modelPrice elasticityHow can price elasticity support strategic choice or positioning?Estimate how price changes may affect volume and revenue.
TemplateTemplate / formProgram MandateHow can program mandate support strategic choice or positioning?
OperationsFramework / modelBenchmarkingHow can benchmarking support strategic choice or positioning?To establish evidence based targets for business and marketing KPIs.
StrategyKPI / metricBalancing stakeholder interests (corporate social responsibility)How should balancing stakeholder interests (corporate social responsibility) be measured and interpreted?Whenever strategic choices create different consequences for the groups on which the business depends.
StrategyMatrix / portfolioBoston Consulting Group (BCG) matrixHow can boston consulting group (bcg) matrix support strategic choice or positioning?To review and plan a portfolio of products, brands or SBUs.
MarketingFramework / modelCustomer online engagement levelHow can customer online engagement level improve people, teams, or organisational effectiveness?Answer the key performance question: “How well are we engaging our customers online?”
OperationsMatrix / portfolioProduct service positioning matrixHow can product service positioning matrix support strategic choice or positioning?Position an offer according to customers’ perceptions of product quality and service value.
TemplateTemplate / formProgram Communications Management PlanHow can program communications management plan support strategic choice or positioning?
MarketingFramework / modelCustomer value propositionHow can customer value proposition support strategic choice or positioning?To create a compelling purchase motive.
StrategyFramework / modelFast second (Markides)How can fast second (markides) support strategic choice or positioning?Consider a fast second strategy when: