Recommending Actionable Strategies: A Semantic Approach to Integrating Analytical Frameworks with Decision Heuristics
This addresses the challenge of combining systematic models and experiential knowledge for decision-makers in strategy planning, though it appears incremental in bridging existing traditions.
The paper tackles the problem of integrating strategic frameworks with decision heuristics for actionable strategy recommendations by using NLP and semantic analysis, demonstrating effectiveness through corporate case studies with a plug-and-play architecture.
We present a novel approach for recommending actionable strategies by integrating strategic frameworks with decision heuristics through semantic analysis. While strategy frameworks provide systematic models for assessment and planning, and decision heuristics encode experiential knowledge,these traditions have historically remained separate. Our methodology bridges this gap using advanced natural language processing (NLP), demonstrated through integrating frameworks like the 6C model with the Thirty-Six Stratagems. The approach employs vector space representations and semantic similarity calculations to map framework parameters to heuristic patterns, supported by a computational architecture that combines deep semantic processing with constrained use of Large Language Models. By processing both primary content and secondary elements (diagrams, matrices) as complementary linguistic representations, we demonstrate effectiveness through corporate strategy case studies. The methodology generalizes to various analytical frameworks and heuristic sets, culminating in a plug-and-play architecture for generating recommender systems that enable cohesive integration of strategic frameworks and decision heuristics into actionable guidance.