Strategy Boards

Overview

Strategy Boards are collaborative digital canvases where strategic thinking comes to life. Think of them as infinite whiteboards designed specifically for strategy work. You can drag in trends, sketch frameworks, build decision maps, and connect insights — all whilst working alongside your team or clients. I built Strategy Boards to replace the scattered combination of slides, documents, and sticky notes that slow down strategy design. Instead of jumping between tools, you work in one living workspace that captures both your thinking and your output.

Key Capabilities

• Infinite canvas with structured frameworksStart with a blank board or use built-in templates for common strategy models. Add cards, draw connections, cluster ideas, and organise your thinking spatially. Everything stays flexible as your strategy evolves.
• Direct integration with Trend DatabasePull relevant trends straight into your boards. No copying, no switching tabs. Tag trends to strategy elements and maintain a clear line from insight to implication. Your boards become evidence-backed, not just opinion-based.
• Real-time collaboration with contextual commentsWork simultaneously with team members or clients. Leave comments on specific cards or sections. Capture decisions, questions, and rationale right where the work happens, creating a complete record of your strategic reasoning.
• AI-assisted analysis and synthesisGenerate summaries of board sections, identify patterns across multiple ideas, or draft communications based on your board content. The AI works with your structure, not against it, helping you move from design to documentation faster.

Use Cases

Facilitated strategy workshops

An independent consultant runs a two-hour session with a client leadership team. As stakeholders share perspectives, the consultant maps them onto a Strategy Board in real time. The team sees their ideas take shape visually, debates options by rearranging cards, and leaves with a documented strategy map — not just meeting notes. The board becomes both the workshop output and the ongoing reference point.

Business model stress-testing

A Chief Strategy Officer builds a board showing the company's current business model mapped to key trends. She then clones the board and explores "what if" variations — what if customer preferences shift, what if a competitor enters, what if regulation changes. Each board becomes a scenario to test assumptions against, helping the executive team identify vulnerabilities before they become crises.

Multi-stakeholder alignment

A strategy team coordinates input from finance, operations, and product leaders. Each stakeholder adds their constraints and priorities to shared boards. Comments capture concerns and suggestions. The strategy lead synthesises everything into a final recommendation board that shows how different perspectives were considered and integrated, building buy-in through transparency.

Why It Matters

Most strategy work happens in slides — linear, static, and disconnected from the underlying thinking. Strategy Boards change that by giving you a workspace that matches how strategic thinking actually works: non-linear, iterative, and collaborative. You capture not just the final answer, but the reasoning path that led there. This makes strategies easier to communicate, simpler to update, and more resilient when conditions change. For consultants, it transforms client engagement from delivering decks to co-creating living strategy. For corporate leaders, it accelerates decision cycles by making strategic logic visible and testable.

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