Strategic Alignment
Overview
The Strategic Alignment report helps you prioritize bets by combining two views:
- how strongly a bet supports (or conflicts with) strategic themes,
- and how much expected impact that bet carries.
This gives teams a practical middle ground between “highest impact” and “most aligned.”
What You Get
- Signed alignment score: positive means aligned, negative means misaligned
- Alignment category: strongly aligned, aligned, mixed, or misaligned
- Priority score: weighted blend of alignment score and impact score
- Theme contribution breakdown: per-theme weighted contribution and confidence
- Portfolio summary: counts by alignment category and average priority score
Input Model
- Themes: strategic themes with relative weights
- Bets: each bet includes one or more theme-level signals
- Signals: contribution in
[-1, 1]and confidence level (none|low|medium|high) - Optional impact score: lets you blend strategic fit with expected outcome strength
Recommended Use
- Define 3-6 strategic themes for the current planning cycle.
- Score each bet’s contribution to each theme.
- Start with priority ranking, then inspect misaligned high-impact bets explicitly.
- Re-run monthly or at each planning checkpoint as strategy shifts.
Notes & Limits
- This is a decision support model, not causal proof.
- Signal quality depends on how consistently teams score contributions.
- A negative alignment score does not always mean “reject”; it may indicate strategic tradeoff to discuss explicitly.
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