Business Wargaming

Business Issue

Business is about strategy - how to move from point A to point B. This is influenced by:

1. Objectives: what the business is trying to achieve
2. Knowledge: what the business knows about its environment
3. Assumptions: what the business assumes about itself and other players
4. Capability: the business's ability to implement its strategy and therefore achieve its objectives

Once a business is clear about its strategic direction, it is able to develop activity plans to implement the strategy and therefore achieve its commercial objectives. Competitors also develop strategies based on these principles - so if you can understand the key influences on a competitor's business, you can begin to understand its strategies and probable course of action and how this will affect your business.

Intelligentsia's Analysis Solution

War Gaming is an effective business tool which can help you understand your competitors and their likely reactions to different situations. It allows you to test different scenarios in a low-risk, realistic situation - as much as is possible. The end objective is to develop action plans before the scenario happens, so that you know in advance what you should do and what your competitor is likely to do. It is also an excellent way to fine-tune existing strategies.

A War Game is not a brainstorming session. It is a clearly defined activity that leads to clearly defined action plans to give you a genuine competitive advantage.

We don't simply facilitate. An Intelligentsia War Game is structured around giving you a clearly defined action plan. Throughout the primary research, set-up and running of the War Game, our overarching objective is to ensure that the output is:

• Action-focused - what should the business do differently, who is responsible and when should it happen?
• Incisive, accurate and focused to enhance the performance of the business.
• Fits clearly with the culture and ability of the business to act on the findings.

Intelligentsia's approach to War Gaming consists of a proven and structured process that applies our extensive experience across the three key elements of Gaming:

1. Preparation
2. Facilitation
3. Output

Our focus is on applying the War Game output effectively within your business through our proprietary SAPP process (Smart Activity Plan Process), to enable you to either develop or fine-tune existing plans.

Learn More

To learn more about Intelligentsia's War Gaming or SAPP process or to receive our series of fact sheets on War Gaming and War Gaming best practice - click the above link.