What's Your Strategic Blind Spot?
A ten-question blind-spot assessment. Output: the one dimension you're underinvesting in and the three moves that address it without blowing up the budget.
Who it’s for: Heads of marketing and CMOs who already know they have gaps and want an honest read on which one is hurting them most right now.
When did you last materially change your homepage headline?
Read it honestly, not charitably.
Four blind-spot dimensions, ranked by how your answers cluster. The winner is the one you're underinvesting in relative to the others — not necessarily the one that's most broken in absolute terms.
If two dimensions are close, fix the one with the shorter time-to-evidence first. Competitor and messaging fixes show up in 60–90 days. Customer and internal-alignment fixes take longer but compound harder.
A profile that’s flat across all four — no dimension dominates — usually means you haven’t invested seriously in any of them. That is its own diagnosis.
Three moves you can make this week.
- Close the top blind spot before starting a second. Splitting the quarter across all four dimensions is the most common failure mode. Pick the winner and over-invest for 90 days.
- Match the fix to the right Stratridge capability. Messaging → the Message Consistency diagnostic. Competitors → the Competitor Signals feed. Customers → Win/Loss Review. Internal alignment → Strategic Context.
- Re-run this at day 90. If the same dimension wins again, the fix was too small or the wrong one. If a different dimension wins, you're making progress — move to it.
Why these questions, in this order.
Ten questions across four dimensions because blind spots don’t announce themselves. A team with a messaging problem will often describe it as a content problem, a lead-gen problem, or a sales problem. The questions are deliberately about operational behaviour — did you do the thing in the last 60 days — because behaviour is the only honest input.
We cut “pricing” and “roadmap” as separate dimensions on purpose. Pricing drift usually shows up as a messaging or customer blind spot. Roadmap drift is a downstream symptom, not a root cause.
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