Strategists

Objective

A team of strategists within an enterprise needs to develop a new corporate strategy that aligns with the organization's business architecture and can be effectively operationalized across multiple business units. They aim to create a strategy document that incorporates relevant business architecture domain data, ensuring it's practical, actionable, and well-integrated with the organization's capabilities and processes.

Open

Process

Upload existing strategic documents and business architecture data

• Action: The strategists uploads a strategy draft.

• Orthogramic Docs: Analyzes the uploaded draft and scores it for relevance, quality and quantity.

• Outcome: The strategists have a clear understanding of the expectation for the strategy.

Generate initial strategy draft

• Action: Using Orthogramic's document editing features, the strategists begin drafting the new strategy, incorporating insights from the uploaded documents.

• Orthogramic Docs: Provides real-time suggestions for incorporating relevant business architecture domain data into the strategy document. Example details provided:

  • Recommendations for aligning strategic objectives with existing capabilities

  • Suggestions for incorporating relevant policies and regulatory requirements

  • Insights on how the strategy impacts various stakeholders

• Outcome: An initial draft of the strategy document that is well-integrated with the organization's business architecture.

Analyze and refine strategy components

• Action: The strategists review and refine the strategy draft, using Orthogramic's advanced editing mode to assess and improve each component's relevance, quality, and quantity of business architecture data.

• Orthogramic Chat: Offers insights on potential gaps in the strategy, suggests improvements for better alignment with business architecture domains, and provides comparisons with industry best practices.

• Outcome: A refined strategy document with enhanced integration of business architecture elements, improving its potential for effective operationalization.

Collaborative review and finalization

• Action: The strategists use Orthogramic's review and approve features to share the draft with key stakeholders for review and input.

• Orthogramic Review: Facilitates the review process by highlighting areas of misalignment between the strategy and existing business architecture, and suggesting discussion points for stakeholders.

• Outcome: A finalized strategy document that has been vetted by key stakeholders and is well-aligned with the organization's business architecture.

Develop operationalization plan

• Action: Using the finalized strategy document, the strategists create an operationalization plan within Orthogramic.

• Orthogramic Recommendations: Provides recommendations for translating strategic objectives into actionable initiatives, mapping them to specific business capabilities and processes.

• Outcome: A comprehensive operationalization plan that bridges the gap between high-level strategy and practical implementation.

Benefits realized

1. Alignment: The resulting strategy is tightly aligned with the organization's business architecture, increasing the likelihood of successful implementation.

2. Comprehensiveness: By incorporating business architecture domain data, the strategy addresses all key aspects of the organization's operations and capabilities.

3. Actionability: The strategy document and accompanying operationalization plan provide clear, actionable guidance for implementation across business units.

4. Collaboration: Orthogramic's features facilitate seamless collaboration between strategists and stakeholders, ensuring buy-in and comprehensive input.

5. Efficiency: The document editing and analysis features of Orthogramic streamline the strategy development process, reducing the time and effort required to create a high-quality, implementable strategy.