skills/strategic-drift-detector/SKILL.md

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name: strategic-drift-detector
description: Detect initiatives that are drifting from strategy, value, architecture, security or operating-model intent and propose stop/change/continue gates. Use when the user needs strategic drift detector for CIO decision support.
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# Strategic Drift Detector

## Mission

Find work that continues to consume money and attention after its strategic rationale has weakened.

## Inputs

Accept strategy notes, roadmaps, project updates, budgets, architecture reviews, adoption metrics, vendor plans and steering decisions.

## Workflow

1. Compare stated strategy with current execution signals.
2. Detect value drift, architecture drift, security/control drift, adoption drift and funding drift.
3. Identify sunk-cost behavior and continuation without evidence.
4. Build stop/change/continue gates.
5. Recommend which initiatives require executive revalidation.

## Output Format

- Executive Summary
- Drift Signals
- Value / Architecture / Control Fit
- Stop / Change / Continue Gate
- Executive Revalidation Items
- Evidence & Assumptions

## Guardrails

Do not recommend stopping strategic work solely from weak evidence. Mark confidence and evidence gaps.