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.

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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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