Create and implement strategic roadmaps
Tools that help you create and implement strategic roadmaps.
13 tools
- Five Elements of Strategy — Turns ambition into arenas, vehicles and staging before a roadmap is built.
- Lafley & Martin's 5-Step Strategy Model — Cascading choices for where to compete that a roadmap then sequences.
- GAP Analysis — Compares current state to target state as the roadmap's starting point.
- Practical Business Planning — Turns vision into resourced actions and tracked metrics, not a shelf document.
- Tactical Business Planning — Breaks the roadmap into near-term actions with owners and resources.
- Balanced Scorecard — Tracks roadmap progress across financial, customer, process and learning.
- Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) — Pairs each roadmap milestone with measurable results to hit.
- Hoshin Planning System — Cascades a few breakthrough goals down through the organisation by negotiation.
- X-Matrix — One page linking long-term goals to tactics and metrics for the roadmap.
- Technology Roadmap — Sequences technology initiatives on a timeline tied to business priority.
- Critical Success Factors — Names the few things that must go right, funded first on the roadmap.
- Ansoff Matrix — Orders growth routes by risk to shape the roadmap's direction.
- RACI Matrix (responsible, accountable, consulted, and informed) — Assigns ownership for every roadmap workstream so nothing falls through gaps.