Strategy Plans require direction and focus – as pictured by the birds in the woodcut above. Strategy plans require concentrated thought – as illustrated by the stylised human profile in the second – central – woodcut. Strategy plans require situational understanding – as portrayed by the person looking up and reaching through the branches to pick an olive in the woodcut on the right. These woodcuts, viewed as a group, reflect the reality that great strategy plans call for imagination as much as they call for logic.

Strategy plans are Stride’s core business. Strategy enables objectives to be achieved. Strategies show how to win! Stride’s strategy plans have a 5-step structure:

CURRENT SITUATION  >>  OBJECTIVES >>  STRATEGIES >>  ACTION PLAN >>  IMPLEMENTATION
‘Where we are’ >> ‘Where we want to be’ >> ‘How to get there’ >> ‘What to do’ >> ‘How to do it’

Issue Analysis, the technique of asking the right questions, is integral to strategy planning – also to good government and effective politics. The Issue Analysis Page is devoted to the advancement of issue analysis as the core of  political science as a profession.

Philosophy is a page devoted to philosophical writing, especially  around big issues of understanding and humanity.

In the Public Interest is a page that is dedicated to ideas promoting the public interest.

The woodcuts portrayed on the masthead were created by Tom Samek. Samek – a brave, profound and good-humoured artist – crafted the originals from Tasmanian timbers, mainly huon pine.

The professional commitment of Stride Advisory is to help clients get from where they are to where they want to be.