A strategy is essentially a pathway for creating value or getting more of what we want with the least expenditure from what we already possess. The amount of value we create depends on the pathway we take in the process of executing a strategy. The strategy table is a tool for developing several creative pathways that could serve us in our attempt to get to our desired goals.
Probably one of the best ways to understand a strategy table is to consider a privateer who has obtained a secret map to a buried treasure of Spanish bullion ...