STR.11:1 - Problem frame

Use this pattern when the strategic comparison is sufficient for a choice, but the proposed decision does not yet say what has been selected and what anyone is actually committing to. Begin by distinguishing a direction, alternatives retained for later choice, an intended joint set and authorized work.

The working result is an explicit, bounded strategic choice with its relied-on premises, resource and authority limits, exclusions and reconsideration conditions. When the engagement ends at advice, a complete qualified recommendation is the useful return; the recipient retains the decision.

Assumptions are premises on which the choice relies. Adopting them for a bounded decision does not make them true. Selecting a direction likewise does not make every initiative under it funded or feasible.

The practical gain is that participants can tell what to do now, what remains open and what answer is needed before further action. Do not reconstruct an adequate choice when only ordinary realization remains. Missing professional evidence or permissions still constrain their dependent commitments.