Model Based Strategy
Several professional disciplines and their associate methodologies, frameworks and “books of knowledge” involved in strategy execution depend on clearly understanding an organisation’s strategy as an initial input.
A few examples that I have used include Enterprise Architecture (TOGAF), Business Architecture (BIZBOK) and Project Management (PMBOK). These approaches rely on your ability to transfer or translate information regarding the finalised strategy into formats from which you can determine the subsequent activities needed to execute the strategy.
A common issue is that strategy itself is not a mature discipline, and the quality of its outputs, which form the inputs for other disciplines to execute, is often low. Strategy is more of a dark art than a mature management discipline.
The infographic below outlines an approach to develop a more coherent model of your strategy. This model-based framework helps you identify and clarify key factors in sufficient detail, providing more explicit input and ongoing guidance for all disciplines involved in executing it.
The "model based" element of the name borrows from the Model Based Systems Architecture and Engineering Course taught at MIT. Some of the principles in that course are applied in the Model Based Strategy Framework, a summary of which is shown below.
Some of the tools and frameworks may be familiar to you. Others may not be, since we have created them to consolidate many existing tools & frameworks into as few a number of diagrams as possible.
A few examples that I have used include Enterprise Architecture (TOGAF), Business Architecture (BIZBOK) and Project Management (PMBOK). These approaches rely on your ability to transfer or translate information regarding the finalised strategy into formats from which you can determine the subsequent activities needed to execute the strategy.
A common issue is that strategy itself is not a mature discipline, and the quality of its outputs, which form the inputs for other disciplines to execute, is often low. Strategy is more of a dark art than a mature management discipline.
The infographic below outlines an approach to develop a more coherent model of your strategy. This model-based framework helps you identify and clarify key factors in sufficient detail, providing more explicit input and ongoing guidance for all disciplines involved in executing it.
The "model based" element of the name borrows from the Model Based Systems Architecture and Engineering Course taught at MIT. Some of the principles in that course are applied in the Model Based Strategy Framework, a summary of which is shown below.
Some of the tools and frameworks may be familiar to you. Others may not be, since we have created them to consolidate many existing tools & frameworks into as few a number of diagrams as possible.
last updated: 26/03/2024