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Strategy vs Blueprint - What's the difference?

strategy | blueprint |

As nouns the difference between strategy and blueprint

is that strategy is the science and art of military command as applied to the overall planning and conduct of warfare while blueprint is a type of paper-based reproduction process producing white-on-blue images, used primarily for technical and architecture's drawings, now largely replaced by other technologies.

As a verb blueprint is

to make a blueprint for.

strategy

English

(wikipedia strategy)

Noun

  • The science and art of military command as applied to the overall planning and conduct of warfare.
  • A plan of action intended to accomplish a specific goal.
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  • The art of using similar techniques in politics or business.

    • Usage notes

    * Verbs often used with "strategy": drive, follow, pursue, execute, implement, adopt, abandon, accept, reject.

    Derived terms

    * exit strategy * strategic * strategics * strategist

    Related terms

    * stratagem

    Coordinate terms

    * (an art of using similar techniques in politics or business) tactics

    See also

    * long game

    External links

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    blueprint

    English

    (wikipedia blueprint)

    Alternative forms

    * blue print, blue-print

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A type of paper-based reproduction process producing white-on-blue images, used primarily for technical and architecture's drawings, now largely replaced by other technologies.
  • A print produced with this process.
  • (architecture, engineering, by extension) A detailed technical drawing (now often in some electronically storable and transmissible form).
  • (informal, by extension) Any detailed plan, whether literal or figurative.

    • Synonyms

    * (paper-based technical drawing) cyanotype, schematic * (detailed technical drawing) schematic * (informal) road map, schematic, plan, layout

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make a blueprint for.
    • The architect blueprinted the renovation plan once the client had signed off.
  • To make a detailed operational plan for.
    • They blueprinted every aspect of the first phase of the operation.