How to be Strategic: Business Strategy Checklist

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Is it strategic or operational? The question often leaves you running circles instead of getting to the heart of the matter. We’ve created a checklist for you to understand how to be strategic. Being strategic in business saves money and time.

We are here to make this debate easy for you. You are strategic when your idea:

● Creates the future
● Is a megatrend or shifts a customer need
● Doubles down on making you more successful
● Is an emerging growth area
● Proves inaction would be risky

If you can check one or more of these statements off, you are strategic. Use this checklist as a baseline for creating strategic decisions in your organization. Ideas come from all departments, which makes an understanding of how to be strategic for your entire team.

When an idea passes successfully through the checklist, make space for it in your quarterly or monthly refresh. From there, we need to dive further into the idea. Do you have a commitment from the executive team to move forward? How will you scale and sustain? The idea has to have structure, so be sure to analyze it down to these details.

Taking an idea through this process ensures a higher probability of success. Soon you’ll have a funnel of great ideas, be able to take action, and update your strategy accordingly. Take your organization to the next level by learning how to be strategic.