Time Horizon Analysis
Balancing short-term operational needs with long-term strategic actions in a paradigm-shifting business landscape is extremely hard.
Indeed, as I’ve shown you in the previous pieces, time analysis is the second critical step after assessing adaptability to that context within a grand strategy assessment.
In the previous issues, I’ve given you the layout of how to think from grand strategy to tactics in both directions.
From there, I’ve given you the backbone of the whole so you can lay out the foundation to build a solid map to execute on.
Plus, a further step of assessing your adaptability, which I’ve defined as the ability to leverage the company’s internal capabilities to move along the external territory to produce the best outcome and avoid traps in the territory that might hamper the whole business while getting close to the long-term goals and vision.
We can now build a solid timeline for what’s critical and what’s not based on the time horizon ahead.
The Time Horizon Analysis Framework provides a structured approach to decision-making, categorizing strategies into three primary timeframes:
It breaks down the time horizons into three core blocks: