STR.18:1 - Problem frame

Use this when plausible answers about a worthwhile contribution, its obtaining way, available means and commitments do not yet form a defensible strategic choice. A promising technology can lack a useful receiving application; an attractive direction can depend on unavailable contributors; an authorized preparation can be mistaken for commitment to a whole service.

The first useful move is to take the proposed choice or the answer that just changed and ask what it relies on and what relies on it. Recover the actual contribution, way and commitments implicated by that question. The result is a connected strategic judgement, a worthwhile next inquiry or construction, or a specific reason not to commit yet.

Use a direct STR Method when its current result already answers the question. Do not reconstruct an entire strategy to interpret one settled signal, apply a known eligibility rule or make a sufficiently supported bounded choice. STR.14 handles an identified conflict among simultaneous strategic work; this Method also helps form a coherent proposal before such a conflict is known. It does not supply missing professional capability, evidence or authority.