What Is Strategic Clarity?

Definition of Strategic Clarity

Strategic: what is important to you and the organization

Clarity: what you see corresponds to what really is

Strategic Clarity: your understanding of what is important and how to achieve it corresponds with reality

To understand what strategic clarity is and its value, below, you can:

	see how strategic clarity influences the decision making process
	experience the lack of clarity in some games
	hear stories about organizations that gained strategic clarity in case studies
	learn about different concepts and processes for improving strategic clarity through the Institute's newsletters

The rest of the Institute website provides a deeper exploration of our understanding of strategic clarity, what you can do to improve your own strategic clarity, and ways for you to participate in our work.

The Decision Making Process

Click on the map to take a tour through the decision making process !

Games

Experience and research have shown that we humans have certain ways of thinking that cloud our understanding of the reality we face.

Click here to play some games that show you some of these limitations.

See the research section and the decision making process for ways to overcome these limitations.

Case Studies

Brief One-page Cases

	The following case studies represent a small sample of how senior managers used systems thinking to face specific strategic issues. These cases highlight insights gained from different industries and different levels of the organization.

	Customer Base Dynamics (pdf)
	Multiple Delays (pdf)
	Multiples Demoras (pdf) In Spanish
	Multiples Areas, Un Solo Problema (pdf) In Spanish
	SAPAL, the Regional Water Authority of Leon, Mexico (pdf)
	Supply Chain Management (pdf)
	Too Many Issues to Consider (pdf)

Dynamic Cases using Executive Flight Simulators

Flight simulators let us test our hypotheses about how to achieve the results we desire in complex systems. The following cases are based on actual organizations with which we have worked. We hope that you will play with them, test your hypotheses with them, and learn from them.

The models are developed in the system dynamics simulation software ithink. For more information on the software, contact isee systems, inc. To be able to run the models, you will need the ithink software. You can download a demo version.

Epidemiological Control of Dengue

The Mexican Secretariat of Health faces a potential epidemic of dengue in Mexico. Download the introductory case study and model as an executable zip file. Find more written on this case in the research section.

Lejacord Wireless Telecommunications

A national telecommunications firm faces fierce competition in the late 1990s. Download the introductory case study and model as an executable zip file. Find more written on this case in the research section.

Vehicular Congestion in Mexico City

Many groups are developing policies to improve vehicular congestion in Mexico City. Download the model as an executable zip file. Find more written on this case in the research section.

Newsletters

The Institute periodically publishes the Insights Newsletter containing articles by its members and invited guests on the application of concepts and processes that help organizational leaders gain greater strategic clarity.

If you would like to be notified when new publications come out, please contact us!

Issues of Insights Newsletter		To download the newsletters quicker, right click on your mouse and choose the "Save Target As" option. The newsletters are presented as Adobe Acrobat pdf files. Click here to download your free copy of Acrobat Reader 6.0.
Fall 2002
Spring 2001
Summer 2001
Winter 2001
Spring 2000
Winter 1999
Winter 1998
Fall 1998
Summer 1997