Rumelt's 'good strategy' kernel insists that real strategy has three parts, a diagnosis of the challenge, a guiding policy, and coherent actions, and warns against 'bad strategy' (fluff, goals masquerading as strategy). This is the Strategy Kernel from the Stratenity Library, a governed consulting deliverable that is already built for you. It gives your team the full working method for strategy kernel, and it walks through everything from the diagnosis: naming the challenge to sources of power and leverage. Every asset ships with a worked client example, a clear RACI, defined KPIs, and governance you can defend, so your team adapts it to a live client engagement instead of starting from a blank page.
What this asset covers
This is a preview of the full deliverable. Inside the Stratenity Library, this asset walks a consultant through the complete method, section by section, with a worked client example threaded throughout.
- Why Most "Strategy" Is Not Strategy
- The Kernel: Three Linked Parts
- The Diagnosis: Naming the Challenge
- The Guiding Policy
- Coherent Action
- The Four Hallmarks of Bad Strategy
- Sources of Power and Leverage
- Proximate Objectives
- Using the Kernel to Audit an Existing Strategy
- Writing a Kernel from Scratch
- Common Pitfalls and How to Avoid Them
- Integrating with Strategy Diamond and Execution
- The Deliverable and Communicating the Kernel
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