Sets the organization's goals and chooses the actions and resource allocations needed to reach them, giving direction, concentrating effort, making priorities clear and keeping responses to the environment consistent, beginning with the organization's context and the outcomes it wants. It scans the environment for opportunities; identifies constraints and ways to remove or lessen them; decides and agrees perspective and direction (vision, mission, principles) with stakeholders; sets the organization's position against customers and competitors, including which products and services target which market spaces; makes sure the strategy is broken down into tactical and operational plans for every unit; makes sure it is carried out and coordinated at every level; and manages changes to strategy as the environment moves. It drives planning, supplies the objectives used to rank improvements, decides how opportunities and demand are prioritized, and secures execution through the other activities, with feedback used to evaluate products and services.
The graph holds this control, the 0 it maps to, and the evidence behind each claim, over MCP and REST.