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Which framework fits the question your team is stuck on?

Nine strategy frameworks, one page each

Hoshin Kanri

Links long-range goals to annual plans, departmental targets and daily work, then checks progress on a fixed rhythm.

Three Horizons

Sorts growth into core businesses, emerging ventures and future options, and manages all three at once.

BCG growth-share matrix

Places each business by relative market share and growth, to show where cash comes from and where it should go.

Ansoff Matrix

Sets out four growth paths by crossing present and new products with present and new markets.

Resource-Based View

Analyzes a company through its resources, alongside the products and markets it competes in.

VRIO

Tests whether a resource can carry a lasting advantage: valuable, rare, costly to imitate, and organized to exploit.

Porter’s Five Forces

Explains an industry’s profitability through five competitive pressures. Direct rivals are only one of them.

PESTEL

Scans six external forces: political, economic, social, technological, environmental and legal.

SWOT analysis

Sorts what your team knows into four boxes: internal strengths & weaknesses, external opportunities & threats.

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