Diagnosis in engineering strategy.

Once you’ve written your strategy’s exploration,the next step is working on its diagnosis.Diagnosis is understanding the constraints and challenges your strategy needs to address.In particular, it’s about doing that understanding while slowing yourself down fromdeciding how to solve the problem at hand before you know the problem’s nuances and constraints.

If you ever find yourself wanting to skip the diagnosis phase–let’s get to the solution already!–thenmaybe it’s worth acknowledging that...