strategy-page-best-practices

name	strategy-page-best-practices
description	Best-practice guidance for writing high-quality strategy pages with Wardley context, actionability, and cross-strategy interplay.

Strategy Page Content Best Practices

What Great Looks Like

• Anchor the play in its Wardley context. Start with the strategic problem, then show how the play shifts the landscape and which component stages are involved. For example, Cooperation treats collaboration as a way to speed evolution, not as generic teamwork. Directed Investment shows where bold bets make sense.
• Explain the strategy from more than one angle. Cover the definition, why it matters, how it works, and common variants. Strong pages layer "what/why/how" guidance with concrete patterns. For example, Weak Signal (Horizon) explains sensing loops, and Alliances separates alliances from broader cooperation.
• Tie moves to real landscapes. Use concrete success stories, failures, and clearly labelled hypotheticals so readers can see the play under different conditions. Connect each story back to map position or ecosystem pressure.
• Show leaders how to decide and act. Do more than list steps. Explain leadership challenges, required capabilities, and ethical tensions. Procrastination shows the discipline of waiting. Directed Investment focuses on portfolio stewardship and risk appetite.
• Measure readiness and success. Include assessment prompts, trigger conditions, and outcome metrics that match real decision points. Call out key signals, common readiness gaps, and how impact should appear in operations or markets.
• Show interplay across strategies and patterns. Explain how the play complements, conflicts with, or unlocks other moves and climatic patterns. Add short relationship notes, not just links, so strategists can see sequencing and counterplay options quickly.
• End with original insights. Use "Strategic Insights" for synthesis that adds something new: a mental model, timing nuance, or response pattern readers would not get from earlier summaries.

Opportunities to Raise the Bar Further

• Connect maps or visuals to decisions. When you include diagrams or mind maps, add a short interpretation so readers know what to copy, adapt, or monitor in their own landscape.
• Balance range with focus in storytelling. Keep case studies tightly linked to the mechanism. Use contrasting examples to show boundaries, including where the play fails or when to hand off to an adjacent strategy.
• Surface likely follow-on plays. Close with practical next moves after adoption: who to partner with, which doctrines to reinforce, and what counterplay to expect.