Framework catalogue

Strategic Thinking Skills

19 frameworks from The Helix Moment, with source chapters and practical context for your strategic work.

Explore the catalogue below. For a downloadable starting point, use the public 5Ps pack and its setup guide for working with AI.

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Core Frameworks

The Helix Model

Rethinking strategy fundamentals
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Strategy × Design as two intertwining strands spiralling upward. Strategy as a living system, not a static deck.

Lines · Loops · Vibes

Approach doesn't match environment
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Three rhythms of organisational intelligence — structured, adaptive, emergent. Diagnose rhythm mismatches.

Co-Intelligence

Designing human-AI collaboration
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Human + AI rhythmic partnership. Amplify, mirror, partner, and extend — not replace.

Strategic Navigation

Navigating uncertainty
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Map known/unknown to Lines-Loops-Vibes. Choose the right approach by uncertainty level.

Seven Faces of Strategic Dysfunction

Each Face has a full diagnostic → root cause → solution pathway → strategy framework → AI integration.

1. The Paralysis

"We don't know where to start"
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Cognitive overwhelm — scattered sensing with no convergence. Teams can't decide, stuck in endless analysis.

2. The Beautiful Plan

"Our plans never get used"
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Perfect plans disconnected from reality. Strategy documents gather dust while the world moves on.

3. The Ivory Tower

"Strategy feels disconnected"
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Leadership strategy disconnected from frontline reality. Strategy "happens above" and stays there.

4. The Hamster Wheel

"We're stuck reacting"
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Reactive loops without strategic direction. Teams are always busy but going nowhere meaningful.

5. The Whiplash

"Strategy keeps changing"
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Static strategy colliding with dynamic environment. Direction keeps changing violently.

6. The AI Fog

"AI pilots don't connect"
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Disconnected AI capabilities without strategic integration. AI pilots everywhere, strategy nowhere.

7. The Safety Dance

"We protect the old way"
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Cultural risk aversion blocking innovation. Protecting the status quo at all costs.

5Ps of Loop Design

Five stages of one learning loop. Read the chapters below, then use the public 5Ps downloads to put the method into practice.

1. Perceive

Before solution-building
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Sense unspoken needs, emerging patterns, and cultural undercurrents before building solutions.

2. Perform

Execution and delivery
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Convert insights into concrete, measurable action. Focused momentum with purpose.

3. Portfolio

Risk management, innovation
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Maintain multiple pathways forward through meaningful diversity of experiments.

4. Pause/Promote

Strategic prioritisation
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Choose what matters by combining analytical insight with intuitive wisdom.

5. Progress

Capability building
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Convert experience into evolutionary organisational capability. Build learning systems.

Advanced Frameworks

The EEE Layer

Values-based design, responsible AI
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Ethics, Emotion, Emergence — the missing third layer beyond Logic and Action. Where human wisdom concentrates.

AI in the Loop

Workflow-level AI integration
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Four collaboration modes (Amplifier, Mirror, Partner, Capability) plus the Human-AI Spiral process.

Co-Intelligent Organisation

Organisational AI strategy
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Scale co-intelligence with four archetypes. From individual tool use to organisational transformation.

Public 5Ps downloads

The public pack covers Perceive, Perform, Portfolio, Pause/Promote and Progress as one learning loop. Open the 5Ps guide to choose a format and set up the method with AI.

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To explore the wider catalogue, follow the chapter links above for each framework's explanation and practical application.

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