Foundation · included with every Steer module
“What has to go right for this bet to pay off?”
Strategic Development & Intake is where the enterprise decides where to compete and what to fund — and keeps deciding. Every choice keeps its assumptions. Every assumption has an owner and a review date. Scenarios sit beside the approved plan instead of in a separate spreadsheet. New requests come through one front door and are weighed against the strategy before anyone commits people. And every decision is recorded with what success should look like, so the next one starts from experience instead of memory.
Rooms you open
Methods supported
Part of Steer · What should we do — and why?
The pressure
New requests arrive every week and get prioritized by whoever pushes hardest. Assumptions sit in an appendix. When the market shifts, nobody can see which bets it affects — so strategy gets reset at the next offsite instead of adjusted in between. And when someone asks why a bet was made, the answer depends on who remembers.
What it looks like today
What changes
Assumptions in an appendix
What has to go right, owned and dated, attached to every bet
One plan, no alternatives
The approved plan beside the alternatives you considered
Requests handled by inbox
One front door, weighed against strategy, capacity and cost
Decisions buried in meeting notes
A decision record with expected results beside actual ones
Scenarios built in
Most strategy tools hold one plan. Steer keeps the approved plan beside its alternatives, with the assumptions, money and people behind each. Re-planning creates a new version, not a new spreadsheet. And when a goal changes, you can see exactly what kept running after the strategy moved.
Where other tools stop
Planning tools version the numbers. Strategy decks version the slides. Neither keeps the choice, its assumptions and its alternatives together.
The rooms
Each room answers one question a leader actually asks, with the view that answers it and the measures that say whether it is working.
A room is a ready-made view that answers one leadership question, built on the same shared data as every other room.
Room 01
“Which strategic bets are we funding, and what do they actually cost?”
One strategy followed end to end — goal, investment, project, the capability it improves and what it costs.
How you know it is working
Room 02
“Which requests deserve our people’s time, and what would we stop to make room?”
Ideas, requests and opportunities in one place, each weighed against the goals it would serve and the people and money it would need.
How you know it is working
Room 03
“What is the approved plan, and what alternatives did we consider?”
The locked, approved plan beside its alternatives — compared, never added together, with finance and headcount planned together.
How you know it is working
Room 04
“Did the decisions we made actually pay off?”
Each recorded decision beside what it delivered, on the measures it named — building a track record decision by decision.
How you know it is working
Who it is for
“Which bets are we funding, and are they delivering what we expected?
“Which assumptions have changed, and which bets do they put at risk?
“What would the alternative plan cost, and what would we stop to pay for it?
“Which requests should move forward, and which should be declined now?
What it replaces
How it is licensed
Strategic Development & Intake is the foundation of Steer and is included with every module in it.
Always enterprise-wide. One Industry Strategy Edition is included with every Steer license.
See pricingMethods and frameworks
Dotwork does not ask you to adopt a new method. The frameworks your teams run become views over the same model.
CLEAR
Strategy to execution, connected and measured.
OKRs
Objectives and key results, measured against live evidence.
BIZBOK
The business architecture standard for mapping what a business does and how value flows.
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The model underneath
Steer, Fund & Optimize and Govern & Deliver all read and write the same Enterprise Operating Model. The first module you license builds the model. Every module after it adds context instead of another silo — and Dotwork AI reads all of it, stopping where the decision is yours.
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