# Value Disciplines

> Position company using Treacy & Wiersema's Value Disciplines model. Use for strategic positioning and competitive differentiation.

- **Type:** Skill
- **Install:** `agentstack add skill-linuszz-business-strategy-planning-skills-value-disciplines`
- **Verified:** Yes — security-reviewed for prompt injection and unsafe behavior
- **Seller:** [linuszz](https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/linuszz)
- **Installs:** 0
- **Category:** [Agent Skills](https://agentstack.voostack.com/c/agent-skills)
- **Latest version:** 0.1.0
- **License:** MIT
- **Upstream author:** [linuszz](https://github.com/linuszz)
- **Source:** https://github.com/linuszz/business-strategy-planning-skills/tree/master/bp-strategic-decision/skills/value-disciplines

## Install

```sh
agentstack add skill-linuszz-business-strategy-planning-skills-value-disciplines
```

Requires the [AgentStack CLI](https://agentstack.voostack.com/docs/cli). Works with Claude Code, Cursor, and any MCP-compatible agent.

## About

# Value Disciplines Model

## Metadata
- **Name**: value-disciplines
- **Description**: Treacy & Wiersema strategic positioning framework
- **Triggers**: value discipline, product leadership, operational excellence, customer intimacy

## Framework

Three generic value disciplines - companies must excel at one, be adequate in others:

| Discipline | Definition | Typical of |
|------------|------------|------------|
| **Product Leadership** | Best products, innovation | Apple, Tesla, Nike |
| **Operational Excellence** | Best price, convenience | Amazon, Walmart, McDonald's |
| **Customer Intimacy** | Best solution, relationship | Nordstrom, Ritz-Carlton, IBM consulting |

## Output

```
## Value Disciplines Analysis: [Company]

### Competitive Positioning Map

```
              Product Leadership
                     ★
                    /|\
                   / | \
                  /  |  \
                 /   |   \
                /    |    \
               /     |     \
    Customer ──────────────────── Operational
    Intimacy   [Company ★]      Excellence
```

### Assessment

| Dimension | Our Score (1-10) | Industry Leader | Gap |
|-----------|------------------|-----------------|-----|
| Product Leadership | 6 | 9 | -3 |
| Operational Excellence | 8 | 9 | -1 |
| Customer Intimacy | 5 | 9 | -4 |

### Primary Discipline: [Discipline Name]

**Why this discipline:**
- [Reason 1]
- [Reason 2]

**What excellence looks like:**
- [Characteristic 1]
- [Characteristic 2]

**Investment priorities:**
1. [Priority 1]
2. [Priority 2]

### Minimum Threshold Competencies

| Discipline | Minimum Level | Our Level | Status |
|------------|---------------|-----------|--------|
| Product Leadership | 5/10 | 6/10 | ✅ Adequate |
| Operational Excellence | 6/10 | 8/10 | ✅ Strong |
| Customer Intimacy | 5/10 | 5/10 | ✅ Adequate |

### Competitive Comparison

| Competitor | Primary Discipline | Strengths | Weaknesses |
|------------|-------------------|-----------|------------|
| Us | [Discipline] | [List] | [List] |
| Competitor A | [Discipline] | [List] | [List] |
| Competitor B | [Discipline] | [List] | [List] |

### Strategic Implications

1. [Implication 1]
2. [Implication 2]
3. [Implication 3]
```

## References
- Treacy, Michael & Wiersema, Fred. *The Discipline of Market Leaders*. 1995.

## Source & license

This open-source skill is cataloged on AgentStack and links to its original source — we do not rehost the code.

- **Author:** [linuszz](https://github.com/linuszz)
- **Source:** [linuszz/business-strategy-planning-skills](https://github.com/linuszz/business-strategy-planning-skills)
- **License:** MIT

Install and usage instructions live in the source repository linked above.

## Pricing

- **Free** — Free

## Security capabilities

Automated source analysis of v0.1.0 — what this tool can access:

- **Network access:** no
- **Filesystem access:** no
- **Shell / process execution:** no
- **Environment & secrets:** no
- **Dynamic code execution:** no

*"Yes" means the capability is present in the source — more access means more to trust, not that it is unsafe.*


## Versions

- **0.1.0** — security scan: passed — Imported from the upstream source.

## Links

- Listing page: https://agentstack.voostack.com/l/skill-linuszz-business-strategy-planning-skills-value-disciplines
- Seller: https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/linuszz
- Browse the marketplace: https://agentstack.voostack.com/browse

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