Goals & Success Metrics

Strategy Objective

The Strategy Objective is the concrete statement of what a strategy is trying to achieve: the measurable outcome and time frame that anchors every downstream choice. In BRI's Strategy Framework it is the foundation the six strategy dimensions are defined and evaluated against.

Where it fits — and where to go deeper

The Strategy Objective sits beneath the six dimensions of the BRI Strategy Framework as the foundation they serve: a strategy's target markets, competitive differentiation, whole solution, implementation approach, financial logic, and staging are only coherent if they advance a clear objective. It translates a higher-level aspiration into a specific, measurable target that later stage-gate evaluation can test progress against. For the complete framework, see the Strategy Framework page at /supporting/strategy-framework. Related Terminology Index entries: Strategic Aspiration; Strategy Hypothesis; Strategy Diamond.

Sources

  • A.G. Lafley & Roger L. Martin, Playing to Win (Harvard Business Review Press, 2013) — the winning aspiration and the cascade of strategic choices it anchors.
  • Richard Rumelt, Good Strategy/Bad Strategy (Crown Business, 2011) — the diagnosis and guiding policy a real objective anchors.
  • BRI Associates, Strategy & Innovation Methodology — Strategy Objective as the foundation of the six-dimension Strategy Framework (/supporting/strategy-framework).
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