Validate Heatmap Against Strategic Venture DNA

Benchmarking against strategic parameters ensures that highlighted gaps directly align with the agency mandate and venture scope. This prevents the venture team from allocating resources to out-of-scope regional infrastructure problems.

A documented cross-walk assessment showing how each mapped gap maps to public policy goals and venture DNA priorities. Unaligned gaps must be explicitly flagged and categorised as secondary or out-of-scope.

Five questions an expert would ask when reviewing your output

Use these to challenge assumptions, pressure-test your logic, and check the quality of this action's output in the context of the parent task and wider venture development.

1. 1

   How directly does each highlighted heatmap deficit map back to your core public agency mandate?

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2. 2

   Where does the heatmap conflict with previously documented assumptions in your venture DNA?

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3. 3

   Why should public agency intervention address this specific gap rather than private market forces?

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4. 4

   How robustly have you validated that addressing these gaps will yield measurable regional economic return?

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5. 5

   What logic justifies including sector gaps that fall outside your primary strategic focus?

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