Validating Strategies

Phil Driver is founder and CEO of OpenStrategies Ltd (Christchurch, NZ). His background in science and engineering management led to his involvement in large-scale industry-sector strategies. That in turn led to his developing an in-depth understanding of the challenges of even larger scale, public sector strategies. The OpenStrategies’ system then evolved through more than a decade of intense engagement with many public and private sector organisations. A fundamental principle Phil applied was that ’anyone can design a complicated strategy system but a good designer will develop a simple one’. The resulting OpenStrategies’ system is compellingly simple yet powerful, even for very complex, large scale strategies. Crucially, OpenStrategies doesn’t just underpin the design of strategies - it also guides their validation and implementation.

1: Introduction; 2: Projects, Results, Uses and Benefits (PRUB) and OpenStrategies; Part I: Why Most Strategies Fail to Have Any Impact; 3: Strategy Language (Taxonomy); 4: Strategy Structure (Syntax) and Meaning (Semantics); 5: Working with Stakeholders; Part II: Creating and Validating Strategies; 6: PRUB-Validate; 7: Creating and Integrating SubStrategies into OpenStrategies; 8: Summary of the Projects, Results, Uses and Benefits Sequence and OpenStrategies