A strategy map is a one-page diagram, paired with the Balanced Scorecard, that shows how strategic objectives relate as cause and effect across the four perspectives. It reads bottom to top: investments in people and tools enable better processes, which deliver customer value, which produces financial outcomes. It makes the logic of a strategy visible.
The value of a strategy map is that it forces explicit hypotheses. Instead of a flat list of goals, you draw arrows: we believe improving onboarding (process) will raise retention (customer) which will lift recurring revenue (financial). Those arrows can be tested and revised.
A strategy map describes intended cause and effect, but it does not prove the chain is being executed. Knowing whether the bottom-layer work is actually happening is a separate problem from drawing the map.
Bottom: train support on the new product. Up: faster resolutions. Up: higher renewal rate. Top: net revenue retention above 110%.
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