The catalog helps identify a starting point
The project questions do not promise a predetermined answer. They precisely define a shared challenge that requires knowledge distributed across different parts of the organization.
A collection of focused projects designed to strengthen organizational direction, priorities, growth and long-term resilience. Each project addresses one clearly defined strategic question and can be undertaken independently or as part of a structured collective decidement process.
Project task: Contribute ideas identifying the aspects of the organization's strategic direction that are widely understood and those that still need clarification.
Discuss this project →Project task: Contribute ideas on the factors that most clearly distinguish the organization and could be strengthened as strategic advantages.
Discuss this project →Project task: Contribute ideas identifying assumptions, ways of working or priorities that may no longer be relevant.
Discuss this project →Project task: Contribute ideas on strategic questions where the organization's stance, direction or choice remains insufficiently defined.
Discuss this project →Project task: Contribute ideas on the key strategic messages that should be articulated more precisely, both internally and externally.
Discuss this project →Project task: Contribute ideas on the priorities that could deliver the greatest impact for the organization in the near term.
Discuss this project →Project task: Contribute ideas identifying areas, activities or projects where time, money or energy is not being used effectively.
Discuss this project →Project task: Contribute ideas on activities that receive more attention or resources than the value they create would justify.
Discuss this project →Project task: Contribute ideas identifying activities that no longer create sufficient value and dilute strategic focus.
Discuss this project →Project task: Contribute ideas on modest changes that could significantly strengthen the organization's direction or results.
Discuss this project →Project task: Contribute ideas on directions that could become significant sources of organizational growth in the future.
Discuss this project →Project task: Contribute ideas on segments where the organization could discover new opportunities to create value.
Discuss this project →Project task: Contribute ideas on new directions that could support strategically meaningful organizational development.
Discuss this project →Project task: Contribute ideas on opportunities being lost because of established habits, limited perspective or slow action.
Discuss this project →Project task: Contribute ideas on partnerships that could strengthen the organization's capabilities, reach or pace of growth.
Discuss this project →Project task: Contribute ideas on technological, economic, social or regulatory changes that could materially alter the organization's position.
Discuss this project →Project task: Contribute ideas on early signs that are not yet prominent but may become strategically significant.
Discuss this project →Project task: Contribute ideas identifying assumptions on which the organization relies but which may no longer be fully accurate.
Discuss this project →Project task: Contribute ideas on risks that receive little attention but could have major consequences.
Discuss this project →Project task: Contribute ideas on situations for which the organization may lack the necessary capabilities, structures or solutions in the coming years.
Discuss this project →Project task: Contribute ideas on the capabilities that will become critical to the organization's continued development.
Discuss this project →Project task: Contribute ideas on the strengths the organization can rely on most confidently when shaping its future direction.
Discuss this project →Project task: Contribute ideas on structural, cultural or process-related constraints that slow progress and change.
Discuss this project →Project task: Contribute ideas on areas where the organization finds it particularly difficult to adapt to new conditions.
Discuss this project →Project task: Contribute ideas on ways of working that could make the organization more strategically agile.
Discuss this project →Project task: Contribute ideas identifying where sound strategic intentions lose momentum as they move into action.
Discuss this project →Project task: Contribute ideas on the factors that keep strategic priorities from taking root in day-to-day work.
Discuss this project →Project task: Contribute ideas on how to communicate strategic choices in a practical and readily understandable way.
Discuss this project →Project task: Contribute ideas on decisions whose current ambiguity is holding the organization back most.
Discuss this project →Project task: Contribute ideas on the questions that would be the most productive starting points for achieving lasting impact.
Discuss this project →The project questions do not promise a predetermined answer. They precisely define a shared challenge that requires knowledge distributed across different parts of the organization.
The practical minimum for one problem area is eight participants with relevant knowledge. The method is most reliable with 15–20 or more people whose experience and expertise complement one another.
In a short conversation, we can assess the situation, identify the right participant group, and determine how the project fits into a broader decidement sequence.