Copy this exercise into your project management or note platform of choice.

Define Your Domain

• Who is this strategy for? -
• What resources can you personally commit? -
• What resources can you commit from your group or department? -
• What resources can you commit from your organization as a whole? -

Identify Existing Goals or Generate Your Own

• Are there existing organizational goals? -
• If so, can they be translated to your domain? -
• If not, what should they be? -

Articulate the Strategy for Your Domain

• What is your Diagnosis of the problem? -
• How can you test if your hypothesis (diagnosis) is accurate? -
• What are your Guiding Policies that will help you and your team make decisions in this area? -
• Do your guiding policies help define what is a definite Yes or No regarding what resources to commit to what activities? -
• What are the courses of Action required to make this all work? -
• How will you know if action is effective and when to adjust? -

Define Adjacent and Further Removed Domains

• Who needs to know about your new strategy? -
• Who can affect the outcome and who just needs to stay informed? -
• Who needs to actually make decisions and complete the work? -

Communicate Your Strategy and Integrate Feedback

• Discuss the plan with adjacent teams.
• Start with simple statements and follow lines of questioning.
• (eg. The problem I see is this (diagnosis). I want to apply these resources in this specific way (policy), and do this type of work until this happens (coherent action).)
• Accept feedback from your team and adjacent teams.
• Integrate feedback: Figure out if negative feedback is because there are errors in your thinking or in the way you communicated it?