STR.6:1 - Problem frame

Use this pattern when a strategic direction is clear enough to explore but no credible way of obtaining its contribution is yet known, when the available list mixes slogans, tools, partial initiatives and possible courses of action, or when reusable exploratory material needs development into future options. For a selected contribution, recover sufficient existing ways or fill the missing obtaining explanation in section 4.2. When an operation and usable material are already available, enter section 4.4 directly, with or without a settled receiving contribution: make an examinable change and preserve what could support a further use.

An option family groups possible courses that share a strategic contribution while differing in a choice-relevant way: for example provision arrangement, scope, timing or reversibility. The working result is a set of complete-enough alternatives, explicit gaps and justified retained possibilities, or an examined intermediate with the next receiving question still open. A complete-enough family gives the next comparison something real to compare without committing to every candidate.

A viable current course can belong in the comparison. A promising intermediate possibility can be retained for a later use without being ready for today’s choice. These are different reasons for keeping an option.

Do not regenerate an adequate option set when only comparison or an authorized choice remains. Use a sufficient direct professional method when it already constructs the needed whole alternatives. Higher-impact reliance needs the evidence and assurance for each actual capability, permission and resource premise; a proposed arrangement remains proposed.