A Plan is NOT a Strategy

Strategy requires a set of integrated mutually supportive and focussed choices that informs where the business aims to compete and how it will deliver its value and succeed in that / those environments.

Planning lacks the requirement of having intents, activities, and initiatives be mutually supportive and focused on achieving a singular outcome of success. Planning activities can be and frequently are a set of disjointed or disconnected outcomes that likely have value individually, but do not contribute to a cohesive understanding of the business environment(s) and enable the business to win through considered and relevant strategic choices.

Differentiating strategy from planning

In this article Roger Martin, explains, the flawed concepts of Strategic planning and what is involved in creating good strategy.

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Your guiding policy is part of your strategy kernel the heart of good strategy. Your guiding policy in StrategyCAD can include

1. Your organizational chart to describe organizational / team structure reporting and supporting lines.

2. Preconfigured and customized policies

Do more, sustain, do less and eliminate policy matrix

All policies are essentially of this structure. What does the business need to do more of and sustain to deal with the situation in the diagnosis and what does it need to do less or eliminate doing to make the capacity and deal with the situation in the diagnosis
Ansoff Growth Matrix

Ansoff Growth Matrix is an enduring Matrix for providing a policy for how a business is going to achieve growth and recognizes the level of risk in the growth policy

Additionally, you can create and configure your own policy structure.

3. Roadmaps - that define the sequence of outcomes and the role of the internal alignment topics e.g. systems, people, skills, shared values or any other attributes you wish to add.

polic for dealing with the situation in the diagnosis

Policy view

roadmap to map outcomes to time, sequence and internal
or other capabilities

Roadmao view

See the diagnosis section (Guiding policy sections) of the StrategyCAD implementation guide, for more information.