Does this mean differs? Or am I missing what the new strategy is differentiating between?

It should just be "differs".

This is the kind of mangling that language gets in the hands of analysts trying very hard to sound intelligent.

It's the same sort of thing that drives American lawyers to say "burglarisation" instead of "burglary". By the same linguistic logic, you get to work by driverising your car.

He wants to do this by when: 2004???