Strategy Maps help communicate strategy to the entire organization.

• A. They help communicate strategy to the entire organization.
• B. They automate incident response workflows.
• C. They set default password policies.
• D. They measure the color of branding.

Answer: (A)

Strategy maps visually connect what the organization aims to achieve with how people actually work to achieve it. They lay out strategic objectives across perspectives (for example learning and growth, internal processes, customers, and financial outcomes) and show the cause-and-effect links between them. This makes the strategy tangible for everyone, so employees can see how their daily tasks contribute to broader goals, understand priorities, and anticipate how changes in one area affect others. In essence, they translate abstract strategy into a shared, actionable picture that guides alignment and resource decisions.

The other options describe tasks that aren’t about communicating strategy: automating incident response workflows is about operational automation, setting default password policies is a security policy task, and measuring branding color is a branding/marketing activity.