Writing a Technical Strategy

"The core of strategy work is always the same: discovering the critical factors in a situation and designing a way of coordinating and focusing actions to deal with those factors."

The strategy scholar Richard Rumelt wrote that sentence in his book Good Strategy Bad Strategy. The sentence before it lists several things that people often mistake for strategy, such as ambition, leadership, vision, and planning, and Rumelt rejects all of them.

Engineering organizations make the same mistake