Most strategies succeed because they properly address narrow problems within a broader strategy. While it’s possible to implementing the entire strategy to validate the approach, this is both inefficient and slow. Worse, it’s easy to get so distracted by miscellaneous details that you lose sight of the levers that will make your strategy impactful.

Strategy refinement is a toolkit of methods to identify those narrow problems that matter most, and validate that your solutions to those problems will be effective.