Whereas the previous tools looked at what happens around your organisation and in and around the target group, this tool starts reflecting on how to respond to these facts and trends. Rather than at 'What's happening?', this tool identifies 'What could we do?' This makes the tool more inventive rather than analytical. If you want to encourage innovation and creativity in your Sports & Development activities, you may further combine this tool with some principles from the Envisioning tool.

What is it?

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Strategic options are creative alternative action-oriented responses to the external situation that an organisation (or group of organisations) faces. Strategic options take advantage of facts and actors, trends, opportunities and threat of the outside world. Strategic options can be identified after an institutional assessment, keeping in mind the aspirations (basic question) of an organisation. The tool 'Strategic options' helps to identify and make a preliminary screening of alternative strategic options or perspectives.

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