From woe to flow : validating and implementing strategies / Phil Driver.

A brief primer on the OpenStrategies system
Who is accountable for effectiveness and efficiency
Stage 1: understand uses and benefit
Stage 2: understand projects and result
Stage 3: develop evidence-based strategies
Stage 4: validate substrategies by determining their worth
Stage 5: make investment decision
Stage 6: create performance-based contract
Stage 7: implement strategies
Stage 8: performance-manage strategies
Stage 9: review and update strategies.