Strategy
Is the organisational strategy clear? Is the team's contribution to that strategy well-defined?
Without strategic clarity, teams optimise for the wrong things.
Grounded in: Rumelt's work on strategy coherence
What We Measure
How clearly the organisation has articulated its strategy, and how well the team understands its own contribution to it. We surface whether people can name the few things that matter most and trace their daily work back to them.
Why It Matters
Grounded in Rumelt's work on strategy coherence, this component recognises that effective strategy is a diagnosis, a guiding policy, and coherent action — not a list of goals. Without strategic clarity, teams optimise for the wrong things and effort is quietly wasted on work that never moves the organisation forward.
When It's Working
- People can articulate the strategy and where their team fits into it
- Day-to-day decisions reference a clear set of priorities
- Trade-offs are made deliberately, not by default
When It's Not
- Different people describe the strategy in incompatible ways
- Everything is treated as equally important
- Teams are busy but progress on what matters is hard to see
Connected Components
No component works in isolation. Strategy combines with others to produce Structure & Clarity.
Assess Strategy in Your Team
See how your team scores on Strategy as part of a full team diagnostic across all 14 components.