The strategy component of a strategy framework (a strategic plan) is not derived directly from the aspiration (the desired future state). Instead, it is derived from the bottleneck to achieving the aspiration.
For example, for a business that wants to grow in frontier markets, the strategy will not be a laundry list of choices of marketing plans, sales team plans, product designs, financing, personnel hiring, IT and digital, supply and manufacturing, legal, and so on.
All of these may be important, and all may be needed. Yet what if the bottleneck to sales is that the company's existing products that are successful in mature markets are not correct, either functionally, cost-wise, or culturally, for the target frontier markets?
Unless this bottleneck is busted—addressed in some way—the rest will have little impact. And unless all other functions are consistent with the solution, the strategy framework will not succeed.
If the bottleneck were instead an understanding of how to navigate the myriad and complicated regulatory hurdles in countries, the strategy would be completely different.
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