Wayframer

Strategy guides

Practical guides to working out a strategy and carrying it out, drawn from the Emergent Approach and the thinkers it builds on.

Start with the method

The Emergent Approach. The method Wayframer is built on, and the research behind it.
Emergent strategy. What Henry Mintzberg meant, and how deliberate and emergent strategy fit together.
The strategic planning process. Seven steps from a goal to a strategy the team can test and keep using.
A strategy workshop agenda. A one-day agenda for a strategy workshop that ends in a decision, with what to prepare and what to do after.

Strategic diagnosis. Say plainly what is in the way, and find the bottleneck that matters most.
Theory of constraints for strategy. Find the one constraint that limits the whole organisation, and build the strategy around it.
From SWOT to strategy. Turn a SWOT analysis into real alternatives with the TOWS matrix, then test them and choose.
How to evaluate strategic options. Criteria and a step-by-step method for comparing ways forward and choosing one.
The Strategy Alternatives Matrix. Set the ways forward side by side and test each against the same fitness criteria.

How to write a strategy. What a written strategy needs, a strategy statement, and tests to run on the draft.
Strategy implementation plan. What to put in the plan that turns a chosen strategy into work.
OKRs and strategy. Why the strategy comes first, and how to write OKRs that serve it.

Strategic planning software. How Wayframer takes a team from a goal to a chosen strategy and a plan.
AI for strategic planning. What Huxley does in a strategy, and how to connect your own AI.
Strategic planning for nonprofits. A planning method that fits tight funding, many stakeholders and long-term impact.
Strategic planning for small businesses. Five steps for the decisions that shape a small business.