Creating Strategic Impact - 9 Strategic Thinking Questions for Breaking a Business

Yesterday’s article talked about creating strategic impact through breaking a business and recreating it as something new and better. I’ve been reworking various Brainzooming strategic thinking questions to make them better suited for identifying and exploring concepts for breaking a business.

9 Strategic Thinking Questions for Breaking a Business

Here’s a working list of the first nine refashioned strategic thinking questions.

1. How would an incredibly successful company with a very different business model rework our business into something new?
2. How can we go shopping with our customers on a daily basis to gain breakthrough product ideas?
3. What do we have to do to increase our number of employee-generated ideas by 100x?
4. If we listed everything we think is essential to our business, what would be the first 50 percent of items we would cut from the list to remake our organization?
5. If we cut the number of product/service options, variations, and alternatives we offer customers, what else would we do to improve the value we deliver to them?
6. What has our industry known about and ignored for years that could deliver incredible value to customers that no one has every pursued?
7. If our brand is trying to catch the #1 in our industry, what can we do completely differently instead of simply following the leader once again?
8. How can we boost our speed, expertise, and strategic thinking by an order of magnitude to disrupt our industry?
9. How could we turn the most complicated processes in our customer experience into one-step processes that are dramatically easier for clients?

The first couple of questions focus on generating many more insights; three through seven address strategic options; eight and nine push for creating strategic impact via increased speed and simplification.

Which of these strategic thinking questions would you tackle first?

I’m leaning toward 1, 4, 5, and 9 as our initial strategic thinking questions to think about breaking our business and turning it into something new.

Which questions get you thinking about breaking your business? – Mike Brown

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