Strategic Planning Needs a Mission-Driven Order of Operations. MAP TOOLS Delivers It.
Strategy fails less often from a lack of ideas than from a lack of order. MAP TOOLS, The Strategy Sequence prepares your team with shared critical concepts to align them in what to consider, when to consider it, and how each decision should lead to the next.
The MAP TOOLS Framework takes the most valuable elements from numerous strategy systems and ties them together in an easy-to-follow, linear process. It structures how structures how strategy concepts should be sequenced, surfaced, challenged, and applied.
This planning primer will prepare your team to:
The framework makes clear what the team must know before it can move forward to the next stage. Each step builds on the previous step's decision, compounding the value as the analysis progresses.
Drawing on business examples, real-world planning experience, and established strategic thinking, MAP TOOLS is designed for executives, boards, facilitators, and leadership teams who want a more thoughtful way to prepare for strategic planning.
Ideas are just a starting point. Smart strategy analyzes them in the right order to create the strongest outcomes.
About the Author
Sam DeBord has led strategy work across industries and continents as a management consultant, brokerage executive, technology advisor, and CEO of the Real Estate Standards Organization.