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Strategy Stack™

Build a strategy your competitors can’t easily copy—by compiling your company’s Unique Activities™ into a single, interconnected Strategy Stack™.

What is a Strategy Stack™?

The Strategy Stack™ is an educational, facilitator-led strategy exercise that teaches leaders how to make strategic positioning sustainable by delivering it through a system of interconnected, differentiating activities—not slogans. If you’re not seen as different, you’re actually the same.  

A strategy underpinned by a unique collection of activities is hard to copy. This “stack” of differentiated activities is what Summit OS / Strategy OS calls your Strategy Stack™. 

How the Service Works

During a series of guided Strategy Stack™ sessions, participants learn how to:

  1. Discover Unique Activities™ using the Unique Activity Formulator™ and Unique Activity Generator™ tools. 
  2. Compile those Unique Activities™ into a Strategy Stack™ (a combination of Unique Activities that makes your offering valuable and tailored to specific needs and consumer groups). 
  3. Tweak your Unique Activities with the Unique Activity Optimizer™ tool to make them even harder to imitate. 

Build Your Own Strategy Stack™

Having discovered, compiled and tweaked you Unique Activities, your team will complete a Strategy Stack™ worksheet by following a guided process:

  • Add the Unique Activities you identified into the “puzzle pieces.”
  • Evaluate how unique the activities are compared to competitors—and refine where needed to increase differentiation

Learning Outcome

By the end of the Strategy Stack™ sessions, participants walk away with:

  • A clear, documented Strategy Stack™ of Unique Activities™
  • Shared leadership alignment on “how we win” and generate higher profit margins than competitors in a way that is hard to emulate
  • Practical next-steps to strengthen or expand your Unique Activities

Next Steps

Ready to build a Strategy Stack™ that makes your positioning real?

Request a free 60-minute
Summit OS® Overview Session
with a certified Summit OS Guide™.