Strategy And Competitive Analysis

This walks you through strategy work using frameworks like Porter's 5 Forces, SWOT, Blue Ocean, and Rumelt's Good Strategy kernel (diagnosis, guiding policy, coherent actions). You get a five-step workflow from framing the question to validation, plus framework selection guidance for different scenarios like market entry, competitive response, or annual planning. The methodology file shows how to combine frameworks, and there's a template for straightforward competitive analysis. What I like is the emphasis on coherence: your actions should reinforce each other and actually address the diagnosed problem, not just be a wishlist of good ideas. Useful when you need structured thinking for positioning, portfolio decisions, or responding to competitive threats.