See strategic management activities for explainations of the four stages of strategic management activities --

• generate wisdom - understand why the organization is the way it is an its trajectory
• create art -- unleash the imagination
• apply science -- design the future
• wage war -- execute

Activities involved in the generate wisdom stage

• assessment of the current business model
• comprehensive inquiry
• identify models - political, mental, business, operational
• strategic focus inquiry
• culture inquiry
• competitive advantage factor assessment
• conflict identification
• problem definition
• assessment of the hypotheses' tests
• research
• experiments
• prototypes
• initiatives
• operational performance
• insight development
• new perspectives
• new principles - creative destruction, pluralism, evolutionary algorithm, evolutionary economics, etc.
• probing questions
• patterns - profit
• models - profit
• incongruity identification
• opportunity identification
• skills development
• systems thinking
• complexity
• inquiry