The method

Turning your ambition into an actionable strategy you can execute.

We use the 3Ds method for uncovering evidence, finding where to focus, helping your team make well considered choices and supporting the delivery of your strategy. It's insight led, business led, and done with you, not to you.

What we believe

No one knows your business like you do. We bring the process, the structure, and the facilitation, that turns what you know into a clear direction your organisation owns from start to finish and can confidently act on.

Decisions are grounded in fact, not opinion, and your team decides the direction, ensuring you are in control of your strategy at all times.

The 3Ds method mark: Discover, Design, Deliver

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Fast Forward Strategy Consulting's strategy development process

Build a robust fact base across multiple dimensions to understand and define the core problem.

Research and insight analysis

Insights sourced across three dimensions: business, market, and customer.

Example insight lenses considered:

Business performance analysisMarket analysis & sizingCompetitor analysis and benchmarkingCustomer and member researchStakeholder researchTrend analysis

Insight focus areas are tailored to client needs.

Understand the context and landscape

Map the drivers of change, the opportunities to explore and the problems to solve.

Opportunity landscapeProblem identificationDrivers of change

Strategic anchor

Land and refine the core problem the strategy must address.

Strategic problem

His process is incredibly robust, considering the market, the customer, and the business and he really challenged us to think more broadly about what was important in these regards.

Chief Executive, Southern Cross Travel Insurance

All outputs shown are illustrative examples of the types of work at each stage of the process. Every engagement is tailored and scoped around specific client needs.

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Common questions

How Fast Forward works

Fast Forward is a strategy and transformation consultancy that works with ambitious Kiwi organisations craving change and something a bit different to the traditional consultancy model. We bring a structured method, the 3Ds, to help leadership teams make high stakes, high value, evidence based strategic decisions and carry them through to delivery, working alongside your people.
The 3Ds has three stages: Discover (build the fact base and define the problem), Design (set the direction and the choices), and Deliver (plan, mobilise and embed). A tried and proven method that takes you on a journey of learning, with a robust framework for making and executing on difficult decisions.
We are process experts; you are the expert on your company and your industry context. We do not leave you with an answer we have seen elsewhere, we seek to understand the core problem your business needs to address. We run a rigorous, interactive process that equips your team to make the decisions, so the strategy is owned inside your business, can be acted on, and is built to last. Where deep domain expertise is required, we bring in our specialist partners.
We are sector agnostic, and expert at the process that gets the best outcome for your business. We have delivered valuable outcomes for clients across media, travel, digital commerce and marketplaces, insurance, banking, investments and mobility, as well as mutuals and membership organisations.
We work embedded alongside your team, getting to know your people and your culture so the outcomes are designed with your culture in mind, which maximises the chance of long term success. Our engagements range from a full end to end journey, from insight to strategy to execution, through to smaller pieces of work such as bespoke research, new propositions (customer value proposition, new products, digital propositions, innovation, customer experience design etc.), tactical strategies (business unit, customer, new market entry, digital strategy etc.) or transformation enablement (roadmapping, planning, governance and portfolio management, operating model, performance optimisation, capability development and transformation support etc.). You can engage us for the whole journey or join at the point that fits your situation.
AI is reshaping how every sector works, and consulting is no different. We use AI to lift the pace and quality of our work, particularly research synthesis and output production, drawing on Fast Forward's own AI tools and agents that we have refined to improve client outcomes. This enables us to deliver client outcomes at a lower cost than the traditional consulting model. Where it suits the engagement, we also work within your own AI environment. We take data privacy and security seriously, and we agree the approach with you at the outset.

Want to understand how Fast Forward Strategy Consulting and the 3Ds approach could help transform your business?

If you are carrying a critical strategic or business problem, let us work out what matters most to you and your context, and how the 3Ds will enable your team to solve it.

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