FastTrack™ Features
A Complete Strategic Planning and Execution System
Professional-grade tools, intelligent workflows, and implementation tracking—all in one comprehensive system.
The Three FastTrack™ Phases
FastTrack™ brings together everything leaders need to understand their current reality, define a compelling future, build strategies to reach it, and ensure those strategies are successfully implemented.
Unlike most planning tools that stop at documenting a plan, FastTrack provides an integrated system for strategic analysis, strategy creation, and disciplined execution.
The process unfolds in three stages.
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Understand Your Current Reality
Effective strategy begins with a clear understanding of where you are today and the forces shaping your future.
FastTrack™ helps you analyze your organization and environment using professional strategic analysis tools.
Initial Setup
Define your planning period and customize strategy areas based on your organization’s priorities.
Stakeholder Insight
Gather and analyze input from stakeholders - customers, employees, and others to surface priorities and concerns.
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Business Assessment
Evaluate your organization across key operational and strategic dimensions to identify strengths and weaknesses.
Business Model Alignment
Clarify how your organization creates value and ensure your strategy reinforces your economic engine.
Strategic Foresight
Identify major trends, emerging forces, and possible future scenarios that could create opportunities or threats.
Financial Analysis
Use financial ratios and multi-year modeling to understand financial health and test if potential strategies are viable.
Strategic Gaps
Identify the gaps between your current position and your desired future.
Objectives and Strategy Map
Translate strategies into measurable outcomes and map how these outcomes connect to achieve your vision.
Competitive Analysis
Assess competitors or competitor classes to understand strategic positioning and potential advantages.
Advanced SWOT Analysis
Integrate assessment insights and prioritize items using Best-Worst Scaling to guide vision and strategy development.
Vision
Develop, refine, and evaluate alternative visions to select a future that is both inspiring and achievable.
Strategies
Develop, evaluate, and adopt strategies that will allow you to achieve the strategic goals.
Milestones
Define critical checkpoints that mark progress on important initiatives.
Implementation Plan
Define responsibilities, timelines, milestones, resources, communication, and risk management.
Quarterly Assessments
Conduct deeper reviews of strategy performance and adjust priorities as needed.
Built-In Strategic Intelligence
FastTrack™ provides capabilities rarely found in traditional planning software.
Strategic Foresight. Explore emerging trends and future scenarios so strategy reflects the environment you are likely to face.
Financial Feasibility Modeling. Test whether strategies can succeed financially before committing resources.
VisionLens™ Technology. Evaluate alternative vision statements to ensure your future direction is both ambitious and achievable.
Alignment Checks. Ensure your vision, goals, strategies, objectives, and KPIs reinforce each other.
Define the Future and Build the Strategy
With a clear understanding of your current reality, FastTrack™ guides you through building a strategic plan that connects vision, strategy, and measurable outcomes.
Monthly Check-Ins
Run structured monthly reviews to address issues, remove obstacles, and maintain momentum.
Mission and Core Values
Clarify the purpose and principles that guide your organization.
Strategic Goals
Define high-impact goals for each strategy area, what your plan seeks to achieve.
Key Performance Indicators
Define KPIs with clear targets to track progress toward your objectives.
Implementation Readiness
Assess whether your organization is prepared to execute the strategic plan effectively.
Implement Your Plan
Most strategic plans fail during implementation. FastTrack is designed to prevent that.
The platform connects strategy directly to action and provides the tools and accountability systems needed to keep execution on track.
Implementation Dashboard
Monitor progress on action steps, KPIs, milestones, financial indicators, and strategic objectives.
Annual Replanning
Review results, refresh the plan, and define new action steps for the coming year.
For Real-World Strategy Work
FastTrack™ combines professional strategic tools with a disciplined implementation system.
The result is a strategic plan that is:
• grounded in reality
• aligned across the organization
• financially viable
• translated into concrete action
• monitored and refined over time
Strategy is not just written.
With FastTrack™, it gets implemented.
AI Assistance When You Need It
Kai, your AI strategic planning assistant, is available whenever you want help thinking through a problem.
Use Kai to:
• identify relevant trends
• generate ideas and alternatives
• analyze stakeholder input
• critique draft strategies
• refine wording and clarity
Kai helps leaders explore options, test ideas, and strengthen strategic thinking throughout the planning process.
System Advantages
Intelligent Workflow
Each step builds naturally on previous work.
Insights gathered in earlier sections flow automatically into later stages of the planning process, eliminating redundant data entry and ensuring alignment across the plan.
Built for Implementation
FastTrack integrates the CLIME™ implementation framework to ensure strategy moves from planning to execution.
Accountability systems, progress tracking, and regular review cycles help keep implementation on track.
Centered on Best Practices
FastTrack™ incorporates best practices from the International Association for Strategy Professionals (IASP).
It’s the result of more than 35 years of strategy consulting experience and extensive real-world testing.
Living Plan Technology
Your strategic plan is designed to evolve.
You can track and adjust execution through dashboards, KPIs, action steps, and structured review cycles.
FastTrack™ enables you to update strategies and action steps as conditions change.
Accessing FastTrack™
How You Use FastTrack
FastTrack runs directly in your web browser.
Access through the FastTrack member portal
Works on desktops, laptops, and tablets
Compatible with modern browsers (Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Edge)
Data Privacy & Control
Your strategic information remains under your control.
Strategic plans are saved locally on your computer
Your data is never stored on our servers
No data is shared with third parties
You can export, save, and print your plan at any time.
Choose Your Level of Support
The difference is in the professional support
Self-Directed
Full platform access
with AI assistance
Fast Start
Platform plus 4 hours
of strategic consulting
Coached
Platform and consulting
plus 12 hours coaching
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