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 stakeholder input. Use AI to identify themes, tensions, implications, and priorities that influence strategy.
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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 trends and emerging forces, assess their importance and predictability, and develop future scenarios that may 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
Define measurable strategic outcomes and create a visual logic model showing how these outcomes will drive you to your vision of great success.
Plan Quality Review
Use AI to assess plan completeness, quality, alignment, and strategic logic—and identify specific opportunities to make the plan stronger.
Competitive Analysis
Assess competitors or competitor classes to understand strategic positioning and potential advantages.
Advanced SWOT Analysis
Gather and consolidate insights from across your analyses, and use Best-Worst prioritization to identify the factors that matter most to strategy.
Vision
Develop, refine, and evaluate alternative visions to select a future that is both inspiring and achievable.
Strategies and Action Steps
Develop, evaluate, and adopt strategies to enable you to achieve the strategic goals and 12-month action steps that will bring the strategies to life.
Milestones and Risks
Define milestones that will mark progress. And identify risks that could derail the plan and how to avoid and mitigate these risks.
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 baselines and targets to track and manage your 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
See and update implementation progress using a range of metrics: action steps, KPIs, financial ratios, milestones, 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, Every Step of the Way
Kai isn't simply a chatbot alongside FastTrack™. AI assistance is built into the planning process, helping you analyze information, develop alternatives, evaluate your thinking, and create all the elements of a strong strategic plan.
As your plan develops, Kai uses the context you've already established—your organization, assessments, stakeholder input, strategic priorities, vision, goals, and other planning work—to offer increasingly relevant assistance.
Analyze trends, stakeholder input, competitive information, strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats, and other planning inputs
Create thoughtful alternatives for vision, mission, values, goals, strategies, objectives, KPIs, action steps, milestones, risks, and other plan elements
Evaluate ideas for strategic fit, alignment, completeness, feasibility, and clarity
Refine your work and suggest improvements when something can be stronger
Accelerate analysis and drafting that can otherwise consume hours of planning time
You remain the strategist. Kai makes recommendations and creates alternatives; you decide what goes in your plan. Nothing becomes your strategy simply because AI suggests it.
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.
Earlier versions of your plan are retained, allowing you to preserve the history of your plan as it evolves.
Accessing FastTrack™
How You Use FastTrack™
FastTrack™ is a secure, cloud-based system that runs directly in your web browser.
Sign in securely from your web browser
Your plan is saved in the cloud and available whenever you return
Work from desktops, laptops, and tablets
Give authorized team members appropriate access to your plan
Maintain access to earlier plan versions
Print or export your plan and reports anytime
Works with Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and Edge
Data Privacy & Control
Your strategic information remains under your control.
Strategic plans are securely stored in the cloud and available whenever you sign in
Account authentication protects access to FastTrack™
Plan-specific permissions control who can view or edit each plan
Version history helps protect your work and preserves earlier plan versions
You can export and print your strategic plan and reports 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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