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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.
View template →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.
View template →Balanced Scorecard
Four perspectives: Financial, Customer, Internal, Learning & Growth
Balance financial results with the customer, process, and people drivers behind them.
View template →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.
View template →EOS
Entrepreneurial Operating System (Traction)
A practical operating system for small businesses: vision on one page, then 90-day Rocks.
View template →OGSM
Objectives, Goals, Strategies, Measures
A one-page plan that bridges a qualitative aim to quantified goals, strategic choices, and KPIs.
View template →4DX
The 4 Disciplines of Execution
Focus on one wildly important goal and drive it with lead measures and a weekly cadence.
View template →Golden Circle
Start With Why — Why, How, What
Lead with purpose: define why you exist, then how you do it, then what you make.
View template →McKinsey 7S
Strategy, Structure, Systems, Shared Values, Style, Staff, Skills
Align seven internal elements — hard and soft — so your organization can actually execute.
View template →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.
View template →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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