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FELDMAN ADVISORY · STRATEGY STRESS TEST™

Would your strategy survive pressure?

Good markets can hide bad strategy. This diagnostic pressure-tests the choices, focus, boundaries, commitment and assumptions underneath the plan—before the market does it for you.

7 PRESSURE TESTS · EXECUTIVE REPORT · 30-DAY ACTION PLAN
01PRIMARY CUSTOMER
02TRADE-OFFS
03CRITICAL METRICS
04BOUNDARIES
05CREATIVE TENSION
06COMMITMENT
07UNCERTAINTY
01 / STRATEGY UNDER PRESSURE

A strategy is not proven by how it reads. It is proven by the choices it forces.

The source material argues that executives should be able to answer seven difficult questions about strategy execution: who the primary customer is; how stakeholder interests are prioritized; which critical performance variables matter; what strategic boundaries exist; how creative tension is generated; whether employees help one another; and which uncertainties could invalidate the strategy. It also emphasizes ongoing debate around emerging data, assumptions, choices and action plans.

THE FELDMAN TESTIf conditions changed tomorrow, would your leadership team know what to protect, what to stop, what to measure—and which assumption just broke?
THE REALITY

Most strategy failures don't begin with a bad slide deck. They begin with an unmade choice.

INTERACTIVE EXECUTIVE DIAGNOSTIC

Put the strategy under pressure.

FELDMAN ADVISORY · STRATEGY STRESS TEST™

/ 100 STRATEGY RESILIENCE
01 / STRATEGY PRESSURE MAP

Where the strategy is most vulnerable.

02 / PRIMARY BREAK POINT

03 / THE CHOICES LEADERSHIP MUST MAKE
04 / ASSUMPTIONS TO PUT ON TRIAL

What would have to stop being true for this strategy to fail?

05 / 30-DAY STRATEGY STRESS TEST
06 / NEXT LEADERSHIP SESSION

Do not review the strategy. Try to break it.

Bring the leadership team together around the weakest two dimensions. Force one explicit choice, identify one assumption that could invalidate the plan, name one metric that would reveal trouble early, and assign one owner to watch it.

07 / THE FELDMAN ADVISORY CALL

Clarity is what remains after the comfortable answers are gone.

A strategy should tell the company who matters most, what wins, what is forbidden, what deserves management attention, and when the plan needs to change. If those answers are unclear, the strategy is not finished.

FELDMAN ADVISORY

Pressure-test the strategy before the market does.

Bring the real strategy, assumptions and trade-offs into the room. Leave with the break points exposed and the decisions that matter next.

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