# Turn my analysis into clear strategic choices

Converts research and analysis into a few distinct strategic options, what would have to be true for each, and a recommended direction.

- Topic: Business Strategy & Startups
- Framework: RTF
- Level: Advanced
- Tags: Strategy, Analyze, Research, Fill-in Template
- Source: https://www.thinkwithprompt.com/prompts/turn-my-analysis-into-clear-strategic-choices

## Prompt

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Help me turn my analysis into a small set of real strategic choices.

**The strategic question:** [WHAT WE'RE TRYING TO DECIDE]
**My analysis so far:** [PASTE FINDINGS - market data, customer research, SWOT, financials, competitor notes]
**Our goals and constraints:** [AMBITION, BUDGET, CAPABILITIES, TIMING]
**Who decides:** [e.g. leadership team, board]

Steps:
1. Pull out the 4-6 findings that matter most for the decision.
2. Build 3-4 distinct strategic choices. Each must be a genuine choice, not a variation of the same thing, and each should answer: where we will play (customers, markets, products) and how we will win there. Include the status quo as a reference point.
3. For each choice, list what would have to be true for it to succeed (about customers, competitors, our capabilities, and economics), and which of those conditions we're least sure of.
4. Note what we'd have to stop doing or give up for each choice.
5. Suggest the tests or analysis that would tell us most, fastest, about the doubtful conditions.
6. Give a recommended direction with your reasoning, and the main risk.

Return:
1. Key findings.
2. A table: Choice | Where to play | How to win | What would have to be true | Least certain condition | What we give up.
3. Tests to run.
4. Recommendation (one paragraph).
5. The question to put to the decision-makers.

Rules: use only facts from my analysis; mark any assumption or figure you add as [ASSUMPTION] or [ADD DATA]. The decision stays with the leadership team.
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## What to fill in

- WHAT WE'RE TRYING TO DECIDE
- AMBITION, BUDGET, CAPABILITIES, TIMING
- e.g. leadership team, board
- ASSUMPTION
- ADD DATA

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