120 Navigating Strategic Decisions: The Power of Sound Analysis and Forecasting
of different project structures and types of nancing strategic initiatives are areas of benecial SDF
team involvement. The SDF team also lends its expertise in developing targets, performance mea-
sures, EWSs, and management dashboards to judge strategic plan performance. Lastly, coaching
the Investor Relations group on all issues related to assumptions and future-state projections and
helping in the preparation of guidance to the investor community regarding the impacts of strategy
changes is a unique SDF team responsibility.
In large companies, strategy development usually involves two independent but simultaneous
processes through which strategy is created. T ...