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name: strategy-frameworks description: >- Structure organizational strategy work: strategic direction, competitive and industry analysis, growth options, capital allocation, acquisitions, and portfolio choices. Use when framing consequential choices about where to compete, how to pursue an opportunity, or how to compare strategic options. Do not use this skill for unrelated requests; route to the nearest named specialist. license: MIT metadata: source_repo: https://github.com/magnus919/hermes-profiles source_commit: 867a555 source_path: skills/strategy-frameworks

Strategy Frameworks

Use a framework to make assumptions, alternatives, evidence, and trade-offs visible. Select a reference for the decision at hand rather than applying every framework.

Need	Load
Direction, OKRs, values, or a narrative	references/strategic-planning.md
Industry structure, positioning, or potential advantages	references/competitive-analysis.md
Growth options, maturity states, or market entry	references/growth-strategy.md
Capital choices, acquisitions, or a business portfolio	references/resource-allocation.md
Provenance and catalog boundaries	references/source-index.md

Working Method

1. State the decision, decision owner, constraints, and evidence available.
2. Use the relevant framework to generate questions and options, not a verdict.
3. Record assumptions, uncertainties, trade-offs, and conditions that would change the recommendation.
4. Pair strategic logic with appropriate financial, customer, technical, legal, or operational analysis.

When Not to Use

• For stakeholder interviews and raw requirement discovery, use product-discovery.
• For feature prioritization, specifications, and product communications, use product-methodology.
• For quantitative scenarios, valuation, unit economics, or capital-model calculations, use financial-modeling.
• For technology adoption posture and architecture governance, use technology-radar.

Completion

Stop when the artifact names the decision, alternatives, evidence, key assumptions, trade-offs, and next validation or decision step. It should not present a framework classification as a prediction or decision by itself.