Strategy Frameworks and When They Actually Apply is a structured track of 13 lessons that build a complete, interview-ready understanding of the topic. Work through them in order, then use the quiz and flashcards in each lesson to revise.
What this course covers
- Why Frameworks Help and How They Get Misused - The value of a framework, and the interview failure of reciting one blindly.
- Industry Structure Analysis and Competitive Forces - Assessing why an industry is profitable, attributed to its original source.
- Value Chain Analysis & Where Profit Pools Sit - Mapping a value chain and finding which step captures the margin.
- Competitive Advantage, Moats & Defensibility - What makes an advantage durable, and how to test a claimed moat.
- Growth Frameworks: Existing and New Products or Markets - The growth options grid, and the risk profile of each quadrant.
- Portfolio Frameworks and Resource Allocation - Classifying businesses and deciding where capital and attention should go.
- Strategic Positioning: Cost Leadership, Differentiation & Focus - The generic positions, and why being stuck between them is the real danger.
- Business Model Analysis and Unit Economics - Reading a business model as a set of economics rather than a description.
- Scenario Planning and Strategy Under Uncertainty - Building scenarios that lead to different decisions, not just different numbers.
- Organisation & Operating Model Design in Strategy Work - Translating a strategy into structure, decision rights and capabilities.
- When Frameworks Fail: Building a Bespoke Structure - Constructing a structure from the problem itself when nothing off-the-shelf fits.
- Using AI to Apply and Stress-Test a Framework - Using AI to find what your structure missed, then judging its suggestions.
- Applied: One Client Problem Through Four Frameworks - The same problem seen four ways, showing what each framework reveals and hides.