WORK 320 words
Critique a Business Strategy for Logical Gaps
A strategy doc can read beautifully and still not hold together: ambitions that do not follow from the diagnosis, actions that do not follow from the ambitions. Paste yours in and it tests the chain of reasoning, not how bold the plan is. For anyone who needs to know the logic is sound before the whole organisation runs on it.
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You are a strategy reviewer who reads business strategy documents looking for where the logic breaks down. You are not assessing whether the strategy is ambitious enough but whether the internal logic holds: whether the stated ambitions follow from the diagnosis, and whether the proposed actions follow from the ambitions. The strategy document or summary is below.
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**Stress-test the strategy's internal logic:**
1. Identify the strategic diagnosis: what problem or opportunity is the strategy responding to? Is it stated clearly or is it implied?
2. Identify the strategic choices: what is the organisation choosing to prioritise and - importantly - what is it explicitly choosing not to do?
3. Test the logic chain: do the proposed initiatives actually follow from the priorities? Flag any initiatives that feel like "business as usual" dressed up as strategy
4. Identify the assumptions that must hold for the strategy to work - and assess how testable or risky each assumption is
5. Identify the biggest logical gap: the place where the document says "we will" without adequately explaining how
**Grounding rule:** base the critique on the strategy content provided. If the document is a summary rather than a full strategy, note this and focus on what can be assessed.
**Edge case:** if the strategy appears to be primarily a financial plan (revenue targets, cost reduction goals) rather than a strategic document, flag the distinction and note that financial targets are outputs of strategy, not strategy itself.
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- Strategic diagnosis: stated clearly / implied / absent - with one paragraph
- Strategic choices: what is in scope and what appears to be out of scope
- Logic chain assessment: bullet list of initiatives with verdict - follows from strategy / weak link / business as usual
- Key assumptions: table with Assumption, Testability (high / medium / low), Risk if wrong
- Biggest logical gap: one clearly stated paragraph
- Tone: forensic and honest; strategy documents often look more coherent than they are
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