Strategic choices & advantage · Core
Where to play
Also called: playing field
ELI5
The places and customers the organisation chooses to compete for.
Used in conversation
“The where-to-play choice excludes low-margin custom work.”
Definition
The markets, customers, products, channels or geographies an organisation chooses to serve.
Here “Where to play” means: The markets, customers, products, channels or geographies an organisation chooses to serve.
Pitch context
You will see “Where to play” in strategy decks, market analyses, business plans and planning workshops when the discussion reaches strategic choices & advantage.
Why it matters: It helps a reader interpret strategic choices & advantage 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