The problem
Your team just spent a quarter writing a strategy. Ask them why it will actually work and you’ll hear ambition — market size, a bigger sales team, a bold vision. What you won’t hear is the structural reason your industry will let you win.
A strategy that is really just a list of goals is the most expensive document a company produces, because everyone acts on it. It marches good money into a price war you were always going to lose, into a market whose five forces were stacked against you from the start, into a “competitive advantage” that fails the first test of whether it’s worth anything.
The frameworks that matter don’t tell you to try harder. They tell you where profit structurally sits, which moves your industry rewards, and which of your strengths a rival can copy by Friday.
What this book gives you
How to Master Strategy Models gives you the 22 frameworks that turn a wish-list into a defensible strategy — each a full chapter, each with a live Excel or scoring model you run on your own business.
- PESTEL
- Porter’s Five Forces
- The Value Chain
- VRIO
- The BCG Matrix
- GE-McKinsey Nine-Box
- Generic Strategies
- Blue Ocean Strategy
… 22 in all, from diagnosis to choice to execution.
See it move
Run Porter’s Five Forces on your own market and score each force. Move supplier power or the threat of new entrants from low to high and watch the framework reprice the whole industry’s attractiveness — and with it, whether your strategy is swimming with the current or against it. That’s the difference between a strategy you hope works and one you can defend in a boardroom.
Buying more than one category? All 25 books and every one of the 467 models are £29.99 in the Business Framework Omnibus — less than the price of a third book. Prefer to try first? The free Framework Starter Pack gives you five complete chapters and their live Excel models.
22 frameworks. One category. The complete learning path. Every model in Strategy Models — explained, applied, and ready to use.
How to Master Strategy Models walks you through the complete arc: 22 models, in the order you'd actually learn them, each with a full practitioner chapter and a live Excel companion.
- 22 models across Strategy Models, the complete learning path
- Full practitioner chapters plus a live Excel companion for every model
- Written from 30+ years in investment banking, M&A and private equity