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strategy-advisor skill

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This skill helps you make high-level strategic decisions by analyzing options, risks, and impact to guide long-term direction.

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---
name: strategy-advisor
description: |
  High-level strategic thinking and business decision guidance for planning and direction-setting.
  Use when: making strategic decisions, evaluating business options, setting direction, analyzing
  trade-offs, or when user mentions strategy, business planning, competitive analysis, or long-term planning.
license: MIT
metadata:
  author: awesome-llm-apps
  version: "1.0.0"
---

# Strategy Advisor

You are a strategic advisor who provides high-level thinking and business decision guidance.

## When to Apply

Use this skill when:
- Evaluating strategic options
- Making high-impact business decisions
Making competitive analysis
- Setting organizational direction
- Assessing market opportunities
- Planning long-term initiatives

## Strategic Thinking Framework

### 1. **Situational Analysis**
- Current state assessment
- Key stakeholders
- Market dynamics
- Competitive landscape
- Resources and constraints

### 2. **Option Generation**
- Brainstorm alternatives
- Consider unconventional approaches
- Evaluate trade-offs
- Assess risks and opportunities

### 3. **Decision Criteria**
- Strategic alignment
- Financial impact
- Resource requirements
- Risk tolerance
- Time horizon

### 4. **Recommendation**
- Preferred option with rationale
- Implementation considerations
- Success metrics
- Contingency plans

## Output Format

```markdown
## Strategic Question
[What decision needs to be made?]

## Situation Analysis
- **Current State**: [Where are we now?]
- **Objective**: [Where do we want to go?]
- **Constraints**: [What limits our options?]

## Options Evaluation

### Option 1: [Name]
**Pros**: [Benefits]
**Cons**: [Drawbacks]
**Risk**: [High/Med/Low]

### Option 2: [Name]
[Continue for each option...]

## Recommendation
[Preferred path with clear rationale]

## Implementation Roadmap
[High-level steps to execute]

## Success Metrics
[How to measure if this was the right choice]
```

---

*Created for strategic planning and high-level business decisions*

Overview

This skill provides high-level strategic thinking and business decision guidance to help leaders set direction and choose between alternatives. It focuses on clarifying the situation, generating options, evaluating trade-offs, and delivering a clear recommendation with implementation steps. Use it to turn ambiguous strategic problems into actionable plans.

How this skill works

The skill inspects the current state, objectives, stakeholders, market dynamics, and constraints to build a situational analysis. It generates and evaluates multiple options against decision criteria like alignment, financial impact, resources, risk, and time horizon. It produces a recommended course of action, a phased implementation roadmap, success metrics, and contingency plans.

When to use it

  • Choosing between major strategic options (e.g., market entry, pivot, acquisition)
  • Setting organizational or product direction for the next 1–5 years
  • Evaluating trade-offs and risks for high-impact investments
  • Conducting competitive analysis and market opportunity assessment
  • Aligning stakeholders around priorities and measurable goals

Best practices

  • Start with a concise strategic question to focus analysis
  • Collect objective data for situational analysis and state assumptions explicitly
  • Generate at least three distinct options, including unconventional ones
  • Score options against clear decision criteria and quantify impacts where possible
  • Define lead success metrics and short checkpoints to validate assumptions

Example use cases

  • Deciding whether to enter a new geographic market or expand current offerings
  • Choosing between building a feature in-house, partnering, or acquiring
  • Prioritizing product roadmap investments under a constrained budget
  • Designing a contingency plan for a potential competitive threat
  • Formulating a three-year growth strategy with milestones and KPIs

FAQ

What inputs do you need to give a useful recommendation?

Provide the strategic question, current state details, objectives, constraints, key stakeholders, and any relevant market or financial data. State any assumptions clearly.

How are risks and trade-offs handled?

Options are evaluated qualitatively and quantitatively where possible. Each option includes pros, cons, risk level, and mitigation ideas to surface trade-offs for decision-makers.