Strategic Analysis Checklist

1. Decision framing: Have we written the decision we are trying to make in one sentence?
2. Assumption stress test: What assumption, if wrong, would flip the recommendation?
3. Operational reality: What does ‘good’ look like operationally — service, labor, capacity, cash?
4. Execution readiness: Who has to execute this, and what will they push back on?
5. Minimum viable test: What is the simplest test we can run before we scale it?