Strategy review: how Toqan can help you to think

There may be times when you want to do a strategic review or have a strategic discussion but it’s still too early to share with your team. Or you may be considering sharing something with your boss but you’re not sure if it’s good enough yet.

Toqan can help you with this kind of tasks – it’s an excellent thinking partner and can help you to strengthen your arguments. Follow these tips to get started with your strategic planning.

Tell Toqan who the plan/presentation is for

Upload the document and share the intended audience details with Toqan. You may say it’s for the general manager, the chief financial officer, the chief executive officer – Toqan will frame its response based on who you say your target audience is. With the CFO, for example, it will specifically look for gaps in the financial analysis, what costs may be incurred, how risky the plan is. Whereas with the CEO, it may look for much broader strategic imperatives.

Ask it to critically review your work

Tell Toqan to consider your plan and provide a critical review. Ask it to find the gaps in your thinking. Tell it to find weak links and areas that require improvement. Tell it to provide a list of questions that haven’t yet been answered.

Ask it to showcase the great parts

Tell Toqan to highlight which areas of your plan are really good. This is helpful so that you don’t spend much more time on those sections.

Tell it to suggest improvements

Ask Toqan to provide a list of ways your plan can be improved. Tell it to be clear and detailed about how those improvements can be included in your plan and why they should be included in the plan.

Tell it you think what you’ve done is a great idea

That’s right – tell it you think it’s an awesome plan but you would appreciate some counterpoints and suggestions for ways to make the idea even better than what it already is. The framing of this review is slightly different and you may get more nuanced output from Toqan.