# Find our strategic blind spots, missed opportunities, and underestimated threats

Looks at your strategy from outside angles to surface opportunities you are overlooking, threats you are downplaying, and beliefs nobody questions.

- Topic: Business Strategy & Startups
- Framework: RTF
- Level: Standard
- Tags: Strategy, Productivity, Summarize, Plan, Fill-in Template
- Source: https://www.thinkwithprompt.com/prompts/find-our-strategic-blind-spots-missed-opportunities-and

## Prompt

```text
Help me find what our strategy might be missing.

**Our business:** [WHAT WE SELL, to whom, how we make money]
**Our current strategy and priorities:** [PASTE OR SUMMARIZE]
**What we believe about our market:** [OUR CORE BELIEFS - e.g. "customers buy on quality, not price"]
**Recent signals:** [LOST DEALS, NEW ENTRANTS, CUSTOMER FEEDBACK, TECHNOLOGY CHANGES, ANYTHING THAT SURPRISED US]
**Information to use:** [DATA, REPORTS, NOTES]

Look from these angles:
1. Customers: unmet needs, segments we ignore, customers who buy a workaround instead of us, why we lose.
2. Competitors and substitutes: who could solve the same job a different way, including from adjacent industries or with AI and new technology.
3. Our own beliefs: the industry "truths" we've never tested, and what would happen if one were wrong.
4. Weak signals: small trends that could grow fast.
5. Our internal habits: metrics that could hide trouble, things we avoid discussing, successes that make us complacent.

Return:
1. Overlooked opportunities (top 5): what it is, the evidence, why we might be missing it, and a cheap way to explore it.
2. Underestimated threats (top 5): what it is, how it could hurt us, how likely and how soon, and the early warning sign.
3. Blind spots: the beliefs or habits most likely to mislead us.
4. The 3 questions leadership should discuss.

Rules: tie each point to my situation and evidence; label speculation clearly. Don't invent market figures or competitor facts; mark them [VERIFY].
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## What to fill in

- WHAT WE SELL, to whom, how we make money
- PASTE OR SUMMARIZE
- OUR CORE BELIEFS - e.g. "customers buy on quality, not price"
- DATA, REPORTS, NOTES

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