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Playbooks for Navigating Uncertainty

Use these learning aids to explore how to augment your current approach to defining strategy with new techniques for navigating uncertainty.

Product Strategy Playbook

Learn how to augment your product strategy practice with new ways to surface, navigate, and manage uncertainty.

Design Managers
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Product Managers
Product Owners
Product Marketer
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Program Strategy Playbook

Learn how to navigate uncertainty and bias when making strategic choices.

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Business Strategy Playbook

Learn how to navigate uncertainty and bias when making strategic choices.

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Strategic Portfolio Playbook

Learn how to navigate uncertainty and bias when making strategic choices.

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Sub-Goals

Learning goals that are obtainable within the next three months

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Roadmap

View of proposed changes on a timeline, to support communication with other contexts and teams

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Hypotheses

Statement of speculation about how actions could drive results

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Opportunities

The most promising change ideas, given the criteria

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Ideas

Specific changes that could be made in support of the goals

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Criteria

Factors in the definition of success, that are worth investing in

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Levers

High-level actions that could trigger desired results, directly or indirectly

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Desired Results

Targets that crisply define a desired, measured outcome to achieve

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Goals

General objectives to guide motion towards the chosen path to winning

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Assumptions

Positions taken on uncertainty, for the remaining “known unknowns”

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Risks

Summary of the potential impact of the assumptions associated with the vision

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Vision

Description of the preferred future (e.g. 1 year out) with an aspiration for winning

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Possibilities

Collaborate to expand options; ask: “what would have to be true?”

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Questions

What we don’t yet know, about a framed choice of future(s)

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Scenarios

Different possible futures, one of which will be preferred

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Prompts

Proven thought-leadership on strategy, specific to your type of context

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Tradeoffs

The strategic choices you face to provide focus and define how you win

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Beliefs

What you believe to be true about the world around you, including aspirations

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Budget

Fuel for your decision authority, from the parent context

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Leadership

You and your leadership team

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Elements of the Playbooks

We're not here to teach you strategy. But we have collected many ideas from leading thinkers on how to make strategic choices. We've crafted this set of elements to support conversations. Half of these you already know. The other half is where it gets interesting.

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Designing a Decision Architecture

Decision architecture refers to the design and structure of systems and processes that aid in making choices. Enterprise decision architecture integrates organizational, technology, and behavioral economics perspectives to help organizations thrive in uncertainty.

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01    Organizational Alignment

Aligning to Strategy

02    Decision Intelligence

Wired for Learning
Wired for Course Correction
Wired for Corporate Learning

03    Behavioral Economics

Designed Collaboration
Designed Communication

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