Strategy · Decision support · Human-AI reasoning

Making strategic choice explicit.

The Institute for Generative Strategy researches methods for the difficult step between understanding a strategic context and deciding how to act. Its principal research programme is the 6C Model.

The strategic-choice problem

Strategy has a difficult middle.

Analysis can describe a situation. Planning can organize execution. Between them lies a different question: which strategic logic fits this context, which alternatives should be rejected, and what coherent choice should guide the plan?

UnderstandContext, actors, constraints, evidence
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Choose how to actCompare strategic logics and make trade-offs explicit
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ExecutePlans, responsibilities, resources and timing

The 6C Model

A structured comparison of context and strategic logic.

The current model describes strategic situations through six conditions and compares them with a repertoire of 60 strategic motors. The goal is not to automate judgment, but to make alternative strategic logics more explicit, comparable and open to challenge.

Shared representation

Actors, counterpart, objectives and strategic motors are represented through the same six-condition language.

Structured comparison

The model evaluates fit and tension across a broad repertoire instead of beginning from a preselected solution.

Human judgment remains central

AI can organize evidence and interpret results. It does not replace the model’s comparison or the strategist’s final judgment.

Latest public report

India · semiconductor ecosystem · 2030 horizon

The Ecosystem Test.

India’s semiconductor challenge is no longer simply whether it can launch fabs, packaging plants and design programmes. The harder strategic question is whether separate investments can become a system in which suppliers, skills, research, qualification, customers and production reinforce one another before long industrial cycles narrow the 2030 window.

India’s durable semiconductor position will come from making projects learn from one another faster than dependence and qualification delays can separate them.

Based on a 6C Model strategic-choice analysis; editorially revised for public communication.

Strategic briefs

Shorter analyses, focused on one strategic decision.

Strategic briefs are web-native applications of the same research programme. They isolate a defined choice, show what the 6C analysis changes, and expose the conditions that would make the conclusion move.

India GCCs · 2026–2030

When Capability Outruns Authority

When should a mature Global Capability Center stop being primarily a scaling platform and become a trusted strategic decision node?

India · telecommunications · resilience to 2030

When Continuity Becomes a Strategic Choice

A system-level resilience analysis in which control of behaviour and interdependencies matters more than simple hardening of assets.

Research

Published and ongoing work.

Peer-reviewed article · Information · 2025

Recommending Actionable Strategies

A semantic approach to integrating analytical frameworks with decision heuristics, including the 6C framework as a test case.

arXiv preprint · cs.AI · 2025

From Extraction to Synthesis

A compositional architecture for agent-augmented strategic reasoning, exploring how multiple strategic heuristics can be synthesized rather than merely selected.

Institute

A research programme, not an AI strategist.

The aim is to study how strategic choice can become more explicit, reproducible and discussable - while preserving the role of human judgment.