The TACK business strategy development model incorporates the responses to the question where to? : 

• Where in terms of growth and development?
• Where in terms of the organization and its optimization abilities?
• Where in terms of marketing and positioning?

Stages and outcomes in forging the strategic outline

1. Business Strategy

• Analyze the potential stemming from organizational assets (interviews with relevant organization personnel, financial data analysis).
• Market and competitors analysis including market developments and worldwide trends — research and identification of core trends.
• Designing the strategic map presenting the total solution, alignment and transition to a uniform implementation

Outcome of this stage: Strategic map.

2. Organizational Culture

The process of modification the organizational culture according to the business strategy includes:

• Clarifying the mission, vision and core values of the organization.
• Designing the organizational culture and structure to support the business strategy.
• Planning change management and its communication.

Outcome of this stage: An organizational culture which supports the strategy.

3. Performance Measurment

Control and feedback processes based on core values of the organization, facilitate availability and transparency of data, leading to increased involvement and serve as a management tool providing real time indicators.

The performance measurement processes that TACK consultants bring to organizations include in-depth examination and adaptation within the organization in order to avoid internal conflicts of interest.

The are four major types of measures:

• Outcome measures.
• Qualitative measures.
• Performance measured plans vs. actual.
• Managerial measures.

Outcome of this stage: Performance measures in the process.

4. Implementation

• Enlisting the entire management team in the process.
• Planning for the exposure and alignment process within expanding management circles.
• Designing internal organizational communication.
• Algining Comp & Ben structure to desired organizational culture, and its financial goals.

Outcome of this stage: Implementation of the support processes (communication, managers, compensation, etc.)

• Growth Strategies

• Businness Strategy

• Strategy Implementation

• Mergence & Acquisition

• Business Plan

• Marketing Strategy

• Benchmark

• Laddering Research

• Strategy Map

• Balanced Scorecard (BSC) [H]

• The NEXT Thing Psychology [H]

• Five Steps of Mergence [H]