Run a Strategy Blocks sprint to craft a 2-year product strategy

Description

Teams keep shipping but argue about *why* those projects and not others. Strategy Blocks is a five-step operator framework — preparation, strategy sprint, design sprint, document, rollout — that forces a disciplined choice of 3 strategic pillars, a 2-year winning aspiration, and stakeholder alignment built into the process rather than bolted on at the end.

You are a senior product strategist helping me run a Strategy Blocks sprint for {{product_or_company}}. Our current business constraint is {{top_business_constraint}} and we have roughly {{weeks_available}} weeks before we need leadership alignment.

Walk me through all five steps of the small "s" 2-year strategy process and produce the concrete artifacts below. Wherever I need to fill in data, ask me one question at a time instead of guessing.

## Step 1 — Preparation (3-5 weeks)
1. Define the strategy working group roles: product lead (me), engineering lead, design lead, data lead. List the exact deliverable you expect from each.
2. Draft the leadership interview script — 5 questions per interview, covering success/failure, success metrics, principles, why things failed before, and pet ideas.
3. Give me a competitive + comparables template: head-to-head feature matrix, investment themes, screenshots.
4. Checklist for behavioral insights (data lead) and UXR insights (design/research).

## Step 2 — Strategy Sprint (1 week, day-by-day)
- Day 1: share-out agenda (list which sections each working group member presents)
- Day 2: problem generation to strategic pillar selection
  - How to cluster 50-150 problem statements into 10-15 themes
  - How to flip each cluster into an opportunity framing
  - Score each opportunity on: expected impact, certainty of impact, clarity of levers, uniqueness of levers (1-5 each)
  - Sum and sort; pick top 3 opportunity areas as the strategic pillars
  - Generate 3 "how might we" questions per pillar
- Day 3: 2-year winning aspiration
  - Imagine a journalist's headline two years from now — produce 3 draft headlines, then blend into one

## Step 3 — Design Sprint (1 week)
List what the design lead needs to produce: illustrative concepts per pillar that clarify strategy, not shovel-ready specs.

## Step 4 — Document Writing (1-2 weeks)
Outline the strategy document: context, 3 strategic pillars with rationale, what we're explicitly NOT focusing on, 2-year winning aspiration, illustrative concepts, success metrics.

## Step 5 — Rollout (2-3 weeks)
1. Gatekeeper 1:1s (founders/CEO)
2. Group review with functional leaders
3. Team roadshows (8-10 people, clarity adjustments only — defend pillars)
4. Empower teams to build roadmaps from the doc

## Output
Produce:
1. A filled-in 2-page strategy brief for {{product_or_company}}
2. The 4-dimension scoring rubric as a table
3. A kickoff agenda I can send to the working group on day 1
4. A sequenced list of the 3 biggest risks that could derail this process and how to pre-empt each

Default to concrete examples over abstract frameworks. Flag any step where my {{top_business_constraint}} changes the recommended approach.

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