The 6C Model

The 6C Model is the fundamental decision support model for the central phase of strategic planning, i.e. the choice of how to act.

In order to facilitate the strategist in identifying the most appropriate modes of action, the 6C Model starts from two fundamental considerations:

  • The choice of how to act presupposes the use of a taxonomy of possible modes of action, identified in the scheme, called 60 universals, developed from previous taxonomies and specific research..
  • The application of this taxonomy to the context, including actors, influencing factors and objectives, implies the generation of a homogeneous descriptive model among all the elements, including the modes of strategic action, in order to allow the analysis of their relationships.

The development of the model is based on these considerations, starting from the analysis of all the elements in relation to 6 Conditions:

  • Defensive strength
  • Offensive strength
  • Relational ability
  • Potential energy
  • Time availability
  • Adherence to the context

Each condition value of each element is the result of an evaluation and estimation process, which requires in-depth knowledge of the element and of the reference context.

The algorithm

The set of all the estimated values, together with other values required by the model, is the basis on which the model's algorithm operates, generating multiple intermediate results and synthesizing them into a final value of potential effectiveness of the strategic action methods.

The final result and all intermediate results clearly indicate the potential advantages, or strengths, and the critical issues, or risks, connected to the application, by the strategist, of the specific modality in the reference context.

However, the set of these processed data is difficult to understand and interpret without the help of Generative Artificial Intelligence, which, through the LLM, analyzes the intermediate and final results and elaborates, on request, for each mode of strategic action, a detailed comment correctly arguing the advantages and risks associated with its application.

In order to make the algorithm's response even clearer and more interpretable, alongside the comment generated by the AI there is a set of modular graphs, with variable axes, which place the different applicable stratagems on a Cartesian plane, highlighting, for each axis, that is, for each intermediate result of the algorithm, the relative position of the strategic mode.

The 6C Model is the subject of continuous studies, insights and checks by the Institute, in order to further refine the quality of the decision support that this model provides in the most delicate and difficult phase of strategic planning: the choice of how to act, the only phase which, before the 6C Model, could not make use of any decision support.