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Strategy framework templates

There is no one right way to plan. Pick the framework that fits how your team thinks — each comes with a template, a worked example, and the questions it answers. Throughline works with all of them.

OKR

Objectives and Key Results

Set one ambitious objective, then prove progress with 3 measurable key results.

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V2MOM

Vision, Values, Methods, Obstacles, Measures

Salesforce’s five-question alignment framework: what, why, how, what’s in the way, and how you’ll know.

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Balanced Scorecard

Four perspectives: Financial, Customer, Internal, Learning & Growth

Balance financial results with the customer, process, and people drivers behind them.

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Hoshin Kanri

Policy deployment — aligning breakthrough goals to daily work

Connect a few multi-year breakthrough objectives all the way down to this year’s improvement work.

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EOS

Entrepreneurial Operating System (Traction)

A practical operating system for small businesses: vision on one page, then 90-day Rocks.

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OGSM

Objectives, Goals, Strategies, Measures

A one-page plan that bridges a qualitative aim to quantified goals, strategic choices, and KPIs.

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4DX

The 4 Disciplines of Execution

Focus on one wildly important goal and drive it with lead measures and a weekly cadence.

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Golden Circle

Start With Why — Why, How, What

Lead with purpose: define why you exist, then how you do it, then what you make.

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McKinsey 7S

Strategy, Structure, Systems, Shared Values, Style, Staff, Skills

Align seven internal elements — hard and soft — so your organization can actually execute.

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North Star Framework

One metric that captures the value you deliver

Pick the single metric that reflects customer value, then align the inputs that move it.

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Scaling Up

The One-Page Strategic Plan (Rockefeller Habits)

Verne Harnish’s system for growth: align People, Strategy, Execution, and Cash on one page.

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