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Seven Degrees of Freedom in StratEngine looks at seven different paths to growth, from selling more to existing customers to entering new competitive arenas, and finishes with a roadmap that prioritizes them for your company. You need the Professional plan or higher, or a pay-as-you-go account.
Seven Degrees of Freedom is included in the Professional plan and higher, and pay-as-you-go accounts can run it too. It carries the Advanced badge. On Free and Essential, its card shows Upgrade instead of Select. See Strategy plans.

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When to use it

  • You want a wider set of growth options than new products or new markets alone.
  • Growth has stalled and you want to check which paths you haven’t explored.
  • You need to rank growth initiatives against a limited budget and team.

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What you get

The result opens on the Components tab. Framework Summary gives an Executive Summary, and Sources lists what the analysis cited. Under Framework Details, you get one section for each part of the framework:
  • Existing Customer Maximization
  • New Customer Acquisition
  • Product Innovation
  • Value Delivery Enhancement
  • Geographic Expansion
  • Industry Structure Evolution
  • New Competitive Arenas
  • Strategic Growth Roadmap
Standard and Deep runs also fill the Momentum tab (trends affecting the company), which means Essential and higher plans, or pay-as-you-go at Standard or Deep. Deep runs add the Assumptions tab (what the analysis depends on, by risk), which means Professional, or pay-as-you-go at Deep. See Work with framework results and Analysis depth.

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Run it

1

Open Generate Framework

In the side menu, under Quick Frameworks, click Generate Framework.
2

Select Seven Degrees of Freedom

Under Select Framework, find Seven Degrees of Freedom in the Market & Product Strategy group and click Select.
3

Describe the business

Fill in the Business Context fields: company name, business summary, industry, target customer and so on. See Generate a framework for what each field needs, and for loading a saved company or autofilling from a document.Then, under Framework Inputs (Optional), answer the questions specific to Seven Degrees of Freedom:Click Continue.
4

Pick a depth and generate

On a subscription plan there’s no depth choice here: the framework runs at the deepest depth your plan includes. On pay-as-you-go, choose Quick Scan, Standard or Deep under Analysis depth. Click Generate Framework. The app shows the processing time for that depth, from ~2 min for Quick Scan to ~8 min for Deep.