Your Unfair Advantage

Strategy tools helps you build the Right strategy so that you gain an unfair advantage. Identify the real problem, understand the constraints and build the right strategy for your business, product, or service.

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Trying to implement a strategy can get expensive

if your strategy is not built to solve the right problem...

Are you sinking time and money into a strategy that isn't solving your main issue?

Are your efforts leading to missed opportunities because they're not targeted at the right problem?

Are your customers getting frustrated because your strategy doesn't address their needs?

Is your current strategy draining your resources without delivering results?

Is your team's morale suffering due to a lack of visible progress?

Is your strategy causing uncertainty and clouding your business's future prospects?

If so, you need to rebuild your strategy by identifying the right problem
and figuring out the correct approach to solve it.

Four pillars for building a successful strategy

Building a successful strategy is done in two phases: Problem Discovery and Solution Generation.

Pillar One - Identify The Challenge

Challenge

Identify the challenge, a goal or a problem, you want your strategy to solve.

Pillar Two - Uncover Constraints

Constraints

Uncover what could prevent you from overcoming this challenge.

Pillar Three - Choose The Approach

Approach

Figure out what method will you use to overcome this challenge.

Pillar Four - Make an Action Plan

Actions

Make an action plan, a set of actions or initiatives that will dictate how you will overcome this challenge.

"Strategy is about making choices, trade-offs; it’s about deliberately choosing to be different."
Michael Porter
Michael Porter / Author of Competitive Strategy

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