{"product_id":"strategic-thinking-playbook-step-by-step","title":"Strategic Thinking Playbook, Step by Step for 2027","description":"\u003cp class=\"bsbs-lead\"\u003eHelp a leadership team think together about a hard strategic problem and leave the room with a clear choice, through seven workshop plays on framing, systems, futures and trade-offs.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eWho it's for\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLeadership teams, senior managers, consultants and anyone who facilitates strategy work. It does not teach analysis tools; it teaches a team of four to eight people how to think together about a hard strategic problem, with each play designed as a two- to three-hour workshop.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat you'll learn\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eReframe a problem from five angles (time horizon, customer, the goal behind the goal, life without the main constraint and an outsider's view) and agree one strategic question\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMap the system behind a problem that keeps coming back with causal loop diagrams from system dynamics (Jay Forrester, Peter Senge) and the iceberg model\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFind where to intervene with a simplified ladder of leverage after Donella Meadows, and decide what to stop\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBuild four plausible futures from two critical uncertainties, in the scenario planning tradition developed at Shell by Pierre Wack and colleagues, each with signposts to watch\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWind-tunnel your options across the four scenarios to separate robust options, bets and hedges, and pick the no-regret moves\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRun a pre-mortem, the technique devised by Gary Klein, and agree kill criteria before you commit\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWrite a strategy kernel of diagnosis, guiding policy and coherent actions (Richard Rumelt), check the balance across the three horizons (Baghai, Coley and White) and agree a stop-doing list\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat's inside\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e44 pages, 7 plays\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEvery play sets out its objective, when to use it and when not to, the time, people and materials it needs, numbered steps, a diagram, a ready-to-use template, an illustrative example from a fictional UK organisation and common mistakes to avoid\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOne template per play: Strategic Question Reframer, Causal Loop Worksheet, Leverage Point Finder, Scenario Matrix and Driving Forces List, Options–Scenarios Robustness Grid and Signpost Tracker, Strategy Pre-Mortem Sheet, and Strategy Kernel and Stop-Doing List\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA closing action plan, Your Eight-Week Strategic Thinking Programme, with a one-page checklist that fits all seven plays into four workshops over eight weeks\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePDF in A4 format — read on screen or print\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eInstant download after purchase\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eContents\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eReframe the Strategic Question\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMap the System Behind the Problem\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFind the Leverage Points\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBuild Four Plausible Futures\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWind-Tunnel Your Options\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRun a Strategy Pre-Mortem\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMake the Trade-offs Explicit\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003ePart of The Business Library\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis playbook is one of the 55 ebooks in \u003ca href=\"\/products\/the-business-library\"\u003eThe Business Library\u003c\/a\u003e, available together for £109 (worth £1,437 if bought separately: the total of the individual prices of the included titles in our store). It is also included in \u003ca href=\"\/products\/the-ultimate-business-bundle\"\u003eThe Ultimate Business Bundle\u003c\/a\u003e, which adds 8 checklists and toolkits and 10 workbooks — all 73 products for £147.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Business Step by Step","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":59143578321228,"sku":"BSBS-49","price":29.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1101\/3147\/8860\/files\/bsbs-49-strategic-thinking-playbook-step-by-step-3d.jpg?v=1791672226","url":"https:\/\/businessstepbystep.co.uk\/products\/strategic-thinking-playbook-step-by-step","provider":"Business Step by Step","version":"1.0","type":"link"}