Live strategies, not dead plans.

Noostrategy is a new kind of agentic strategy practice, creating live strategies played by humans and agents.

Strategy becomes the organization's shared thinking layer, guiding the work and learning from it.

Giving organizations their agency back.

Most organizations gave up their agency long ago to rituals built for a time when thinking was scarce. Now many are preparing to hand the rest to automation.

Agentic strategy takes it back, with machines rather than against them.

Three things keep strategies alive.

Live Strategy is the method: a theory of how the organization wins, and a practice of shifts, bets and experiments that tests it.

The Strategy Ensemble plays it, pairing each agent with a human who has lived what the agent has only read about.

The Strategy Canvas is where it's played, one surface the humans and the agents both write on.

Case

Live strategy with 417.

The crowd at Solstice in haze and sunset light under the roof, with the fells and a ski lift beyond
Solstice. Photo from solsticefestival.fi.

We played the strategy live with 417, the organization behind Post Bar and the Solstice festival, the way they run a night: four-hour sessions, weeks apart. Three parties played back to back in the booth: the 417 crew, the strategist and a group of agents. Between sessions the agents read the market data and the crew's conversations, and had them back as hypotheses by morning.

The strategy took shape in the selections made between the three: a new theory of winning, the shifts it calls for and the bets that test it. None of the three would have landed on it alone.

And it is still playing. The strategy runs live on the Strategy Canvas, on a site of its own, with a timeline of what happens when and a map of how it all connects. Every fortnight the crew reviews what the experiments found and writes it back into the strategy. In between, anyone can ask the strategy directly, about a task or a decision. It guides the work and learns from it.

Read how it was played in Back 2 Back

Why noo.

Noo comes from nous, the Greek word for mind. A century ago Vladimir Vernadsky described the planet in three layers: the geosphere of rock, the biosphere of life and, emerging from them, the noosphere of thought. Once thought appears, it starts reshaping the other two.

Noostrategy is that layer in an organization: its mind, shared by humans and agents, reshaping the whole organism into its next form.

One step at a time.

  1. The Roast.

    Eight questions and an honest read of where the organization stands. Free, at strategyroast.com.

  2. The pilot.

    One question the current plan cannot answer, worked through with one team in a few sessions. You see how the ensemble plays before committing to more.

  3. Making the strategy.

    The full process: the present system, the future system and the portfolio of shifts between them, played in sessions by your team, the strategist and the agents. Scoped to the organization.

  4. Playing the strategy.

    The strategy runs on a site of its own. We run regular sessions with you, at the tempo that suits the organization. The agents keep reading in between, and the strategy keeps learning.

Each step is agreed on its own. The files are yours throughout, and you keep them.

On the record.

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We write about agentic strategy. We've built the instruments for it. And we run it with organizations that intend to stay in the game.

Get in touch with Ville Tikka, ville@villetikka.com