Strategy Dynamics Worksheets

How can you get at the root of a strategic issue? If you can do so quickly, what effect would it have on your performance? The Strategy Dynamics approach enables you to build an integrated and fact-based picture of how the resources of your business are developing through time, as a result of their mutual interdependence, management policies and external opportunities and constraints.

worksheets picture

Sample - 23 pages in pdf format

This document provides worksheets and guidance notes for applying the Strategy Dynamics method to practical challenges facing businesses and non-profit organisations. They are intended to help management teams, leaders of strategy projects, or consultants work through the Strategy Dynamics process, to arrive at a coherent, communicable and adaptable story of where the business is heading into the future.

The materials on this site all help you to understand and learn about the approach, and these worksheets can help you to apply it - but remember, like any business analysis technique, this method is only as valuable as the quality of information and thinking that are put into it.

To use the worksheets effectively, refer to the detailed explanations provided in Kim Warrens' book - Competitive Strategy Dynamics and in a series of related articles available on this site.

Supporting software - mystrategy^tm. These worksheets can be used either alone, or with groups, to build the picture of your strategic architecture. There is, though, a limit to the extent and flexibility of such hard-copy materials. So you will find the mystrategy^tm mapping and modelling software useful for going further - in two distinct stages. First, you can map historic and expected data, together with their inter-relationships in a manner that is clearer and more intuitive than spreadsheets allow. Secondly, you can incorporate the quantitative relationship that reflect how resources actually develop through time, and the interdependencies that result, to create simple simulations of past and future performance.

The Strategy Dynamics Workbook is organised as follows:

Worksheets and notes. Each worksheet is shown, with notes and tips.

Worked example. The core worksheets are worked through for the case of a low-cost internet savings bank, to illustrate how the process is applied.

Illustrative strategic architectures. A series of diverse examples are described, to show the result of applying the worksheets to a range of common industry cases.

Worksheet master-set for copying. Blank originals of the worksheets are provided, which may be copied for personal use. Note that regular copyright conditions apply.