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Core Services

Strategy Red Team, Strategy Foundation, Strategy Stress Test

A side-by-side view for CEOs and boards of $5–100M organizations. Pick the service that matches your need now, all align to clear choices and disciplined execution.

Strategy Red Team

Get independent second opinions on completeness and health

Teams blame execution. Often the strategy is incomplete, outdated, or misaligned. We provide an objective review that clarifies real choices and tradeoffs.

What we do

  • Independent review of your current strategy set
  • Clarify choices, test logic, expose blind spots
  • Apply the Strategy Red Team Rubric
  • Brief the CEO and board on findings

Common signs you need a review

  • Busy teams, results do not improve
  • Plans lack clear choices or direction
  • CEO and board are misaligned
  • Unsure if strategy fits today’s disruption

What you get

  • Structured second opinion, documented gaps
  • Recommendations to strengthen choices
  • Options memo and leadership briefing
  • 45 minute consult on next steps
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Strategy Foundation

Strengthen the four foundational pillars before deploying strategy

Many teams run on plans and activity, not on a complete foundation. Without identity, direction, a working model, and measurement, decisions rest on assumptions, not facts.

What we do

  • Who are we, diagnostics on purpose, values, capabilities, position
  • Where are we going, strategy cascade, real choices and tradeoffs
  • How will we get there, business model and operating design
  • How will we know, performance management and learning loops

Common signs you need a foundation

  • Leaders disagree on what you do best or who you serve
  • Direction shifts with budgets, priorities lack clear tradeoffs
  • Revenue model is unclear or depends on one source
  • KPIs exist, yet do not guide decisions

What you get

  • Current state fact base and gaps
  • Leadership alignment on choices
  • Documented strategy foundation, ready for execution
  • Measurement plan to track and adapt
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Strategy Stress Test

Confirm strategy resilience when conditions change unexpectedly

Technology, economics, policy, talent, climate, conditions can flip fast. We test resilience so you see where the strategy breaks, and how to adapt.

What we do

  • Design “what if” scenarios tied to your context
  • Probe assumptions, map failure points
  • Score resilience with a visual heatmap
  • Recommend specific adaptive moves

Common signs you need a stress test

  • No recent scenario work or contingency plans
  • Single point risks in talent or partners
  • Industry rules or tech are shifting
  • Assumptions have not been challenged in years

What you get

  • Heatmap of resilience gaps
  • Scenario specific recommendations
  • Prioritized actions to harden the strategy
  • Optional follow up in 6 to 12 months
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“When you have to make a choice and don’t make it, that is in itself a choice.”

— William James