Market entry prioritization: Baseline and evidence diagnostic

A cross-industry diagnostic for strategy and growth teams. It records what is actually known about candidate markets before entry is prioritized. It keeps the attractiveness of a market separate from the confidence of the evidence behind it, tests regulations in practice as well as on paper, and flags investment-screening exposure. It also gives the evidence clinic a structured way to challenge baselines and missing evidence.

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Prepared byStratenity Advisory Team

Executive summary

A diagnostic that shows how strong the evidence is behind each candidate market before any market is ranked for entry. It turns a market shortlist into a traceable baseline and a clear list of evidence gaps to close.

What is inside

What this diagnostic covers

A diagnostic questionnaire covering demand, competition, entry barriers, entry cost and conversion. An evidence inventory with grading and source-date rules. A scoring method that keeps market attractiveness separate from evidence confidence, with explicit decision rules. An entry economics worksheet with breakeven conversion and a conversion sensitivity. A completed synthetic example with a failure case and an alternate scenario. Gate, risk and KPI tables, plus an evidence clinic challenge log.

Purpose and decision
Context and applicability
Inputs and evidence
Definitions and assumptions
Method and analytical logic
Current-state assessment
Options and business case
Recommended design
Execution and activation
Governance and risk
Measurement and benefits
Worked example and practice
Working tools and references

How to use it

How to use this diagnostic

First, agree the candidate markets, entry routes and scoring weights with the decision owner. Each market owner then completes the questionnaire and logs every piece of evidence in the inventory, and legal counsel confirms the barrier and screening questions. Next, score each market, baseline its entry economics and test how sensitive the result is to conversion. Bring the results to a peer evidence clinic for challenge. Finally, apply the decision rules to advance markets to a business case, assign evidence actions or send markets to gate review.

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Stratenity Advisory Team. (2026). Market entry prioritization: Baseline and evidence diagnostic. Stratenity Library. https://www.stratenity.com/resources/library/diagnostic-templates/market-entry-prioritization-baseline-and-evidence-diagnostic

Stratenity Advisory Team. "Market entry prioritization: Baseline and evidence diagnostic." Stratenity Library, 2026, www.stratenity.com/resources/library/diagnostic-templates/market-entry-prioritization-baseline-and-evidence-diagnostic.

Stratenity Advisory Team. "Market entry prioritization: Baseline and evidence diagnostic." Stratenity Library, 2026. https://www.stratenity.com/resources/library/diagnostic-templates/market-entry-prioritization-baseline-and-evidence-diagnostic.

Stratenity Advisory Team (2026) Market entry prioritization: Baseline and evidence diagnostic. Stratenity Library. Available at: https://www.stratenity.com/resources/library/diagnostic-templates/market-entry-prioritization-baseline-and-evidence-diagnostic (Accessed: the date of access).

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Market entry prioritization: Baseline and evidence diagnostic

What this diagnostic covers

This is a taste. The full library goes deeper.

Stratenity is the AI Operating System for Strategic Execution™.

Stratenity is the AI Operating System for Strategic Execution^™.