The opening decision

SensorCo supplies physical inspection sensors and field service. Its generic AI-inspection price has fallen over twelve months. That margin previously helped fund service. The company has field-service knowledge and a certified sensor platform, but those assets do not establish demand for a new integrated service.

The StrategyTeam turns “find our AI strategy for 2027” into a bounded question for the Board: what can SensorCo responsibly pursue and commit to in the affected segment over the next twelve months while sustaining current service? Device-only continuation, integrated service, data licensing and exit remain alternatives.

The offering, SensorCo’s service arrangement and the specialists’ capabilities are different possible subjects of change. The existing platform can support a new contribution without supplying its data access, incident cover or acceptance conditions. A smaller improvement of an enabling condition remains an option alongside a new service initiative.

The team prepares the answer; the Board has separately established authority to select direction and bounded internal commitments. Data permission, customer agreement, financing and realized capability retain their separate conditions. This distinction permits a useful frame now without assuming that the eventual service direction has been chosen.

STR.1 can finish with this question. STR.2 next examines what the changed price premise affects. Its impact remains distinct from a changed customer population or an adopted rule of choice; each would require its own supported consequence. The later comparison will distinguish a four-day preparation decision from the still-open twelve-month strategy choice.