strategy-advisor_skill

Overview

This skill provides high-level strategic thinking and business decision guidance to help leaders set direction and choose between alternatives. It focuses on clarifying the situation, generating options, evaluating trade-offs, and delivering a clear recommendation with implementation steps. Use it to turn ambiguous strategic problems into actionable plans.

How this skill works

The skill inspects the current state, objectives, stakeholders, market dynamics, and constraints to build a situational analysis. It generates and evaluates multiple options against decision criteria like alignment, financial impact, resources, risk, and time horizon. It produces a recommended course of action, a phased implementation roadmap, success metrics, and contingency plans.

When to use it

• Choosing between major strategic options (e.g., market entry, pivot, acquisition)
• Setting organizational or product direction for the next 1–5 years
• Evaluating trade-offs and risks for high-impact investments
• Conducting competitive analysis and market opportunity assessment
• Aligning stakeholders around priorities and measurable goals

Best practices

• Start with a concise strategic question to focus analysis
• Collect objective data for situational analysis and state assumptions explicitly
• Generate at least three distinct options, including unconventional ones
• Score options against clear decision criteria and quantify impacts where possible
• Define lead success metrics and short checkpoints to validate assumptions

Example use cases

• Deciding whether to enter a new geographic market or expand current offerings
• Choosing between building a feature in-house, partnering, or acquiring
• Prioritizing product roadmap investments under a constrained budget
• Designing a contingency plan for a potential competitive threat
• Formulating a three-year growth strategy with milestones and KPIs