"formulate the strategy" is a valid phrase in written English.
You could use it when you need to suggest that a plan or approach should be carefully thought out and written down. For example, "The executive team must formulate the strategy for the upcoming quarter in order to achieve their goals."
Mr. Brenneman is credited with helping formulate the strategy for Continental's recovery and for helping carry it out.
Kenneth M. Pollack, who as a C.I.A. analyst and national security official in the 1990's helped formulate the strategy of containing Iraq through economic sanctions and limited military actions, has reluctantly concluded in a new book, "The Threatening Storm" (Random House), that an invasion of Iraq is now the best approach.
The second component is to formulate the strategy for STP segmentation, targeting and positioning.
By lending his prestige to Kennan's position, the president tacitly signaled his intention to formulate the strategy of his administration within the framework of its predecessor's, despite the misgivings of some within the Republican Party.
Identify and formulate the strategy accordingly, or better still plan a strategy that could make you a trend setter.
Therefore, cost-effective analysis on those medications may be useful to formulate the strategies to reduce patients' out-of-pocket payments.
The acute and chronic exposure and accumulation of these chemicals can result in tissue burdens that produce adverse effects not only in the exposed organisms, but also organisms including human beings; therefore, it seems essential to study detrimental effects of such hazardous pollutants so as to formulate the strategies for safe guarding aquatic organisms.
"We know the Chinese will enhance their nuclear capability anyway, and we are going to say to them, 'We're not going to tell you not to do it,' " a senior administration official deeply involved in formulating the strategy said in an interview this week.
Formulating the strategy took longer than billed, and even before the Brexit vote in June 2016 its release had been delayed six-months after Vaizey opted to run a public consultation to widen the pool of ideas being considered.
