Strategy often fails for one simple reason: leaders focus on ambition, but don’t test whether the organisation can actually deliver it - or protect it.

I have used this framework with organisations ranging from aged care to SaaS. It works because it forces one discipline:

Follow the value end-to-end.

1. Decide what value you want to create.

2. Build the capabilities that enable it.

3. Protect that value from erosion through risk and resilience.

This one-page diagnostic gives boards and executive teams a practical way to test whether those three elements are genuinely connected.

Who’s it for

• Boards reviewing or refreshing strategy

• CEOs preparing for strategic planning

• Executive teams aligning growth, transformation and risk

• Organisations that want clearer linkage between strategy, capability and risk

How to Use it

1. Download the one-page Strategy Diagnostic

2. Two ways to use it:

   • Before a strategy session: annotate it individually to clarify your own view of value drivers, capability gaps and risk exposures.

   • In session with executives: use it to structure a focused, outcome-driven conversation that delivers one clear, funded 90-day priority.