Strategy frameworks & analysis · Specialist
Four Actions Framework
Also called: eliminate-reduce-raise-create grid
ELI5
Four questions for redesigning what an offer competes on.
Used in conversation
“Use the Four Actions Framework to turn insight into choices.”
Definition
A Blue Ocean tool asking what to eliminate, reduce, raise and create.
Here “Four Actions Framework” means: A Blue Ocean tool asking what to eliminate, reduce, raise and create.
Pitch context
You will see “Four Actions Framework” in strategy decks, market analyses, business plans and planning workshops when the discussion reaches strategy frameworks & analysis.
Why it matters: It helps a reader interpret strategy frameworks & analysis without confusing the measure, decision, role or evidence being discussed.
Sources & evidence · 5
Supporting source families. This entry is an editorial synthesis rather than a quotation from one canonical glossary.
- Strategyzer — Business Model Canvas resourcesSupporting source family · practitioner · checked 2026-08-16
- Strategyzer — Value Proposition Canvas resourcesSupporting source family · practitioner · checked 2026-08-16
- LEANSTACK — Lean CanvasSupporting source family · practitioner · checked 2026-08-16
- U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division — Herfindahl-Hirschman IndexSupporting source family · primary · checked 2026-08-16
- U.S. Census Bureau — Business and economy dataSupporting source family · primary · checked 2026-08-16