The Trade-off You're Avoiding
Most strategy documents are lists of good intentions. A real strategy is the trade-off underneath them.
Read enough strategy documents and a pattern emerges: they list everything the team believes matters, in roughly the order it occurred to someone, with very little indication of what will be sacrificed to pursue it. That isn't a strategy. It's a wish list with headers.
A real strategy names the trade-off. It says, specifically, what will not get built this quarter so that something else can. It says which customer segment is being deprioritized, and accepts the discomfort of saying so out loud, in a document other people will read and remember.
The reason so many teams avoid this is obvious: naming a trade-off creates a target. Someone will disagree with what got cut. It's more comfortable to write a document ambitious enough that nobody can point to what was left out — right up until the roadmap collapses under its own ambiguity three months later.
The teams that plan well aren't the ones with the cleverest priorities. They're the ones willing to write the uncomfortable sentence: we are choosing this, which means we are not choosing that, and here is why the trade is worth it.
If your strategy document doesn't contain a sentence like that, it isn't finished yet — no matter how many goals it lists.