Wargaming for Leaders
Strategic Decision Making from the Battlefield to the Boardroom
Editorial Review
If you had the opportunity to probe the future, make strategic choices, and view their consequences before making expensive and irretrievable decisions, wouldn't you take advantage of it? Of course you would. And in a world of asymmetrical conflict, security threats, intense global competition, and economic uncertainty, there is an even higher premium on road-testing plans and strategies--whether they're spearheaded by government organizations, transnational corporations, or emerging megacommunities. Wargaming for Leaders provides a methodology to get at the issues that one leader, no matter how visionary, cannot grasp on his or her own. How? By bringing together the real experts on the topic at hand to wage cognitive warfare. Through tapping the collective wisdom surrounding an issue, experts can experience the future in a risk-free environment and find answers to questions that had not been on their radar--often with unexpected and startling results.
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Wargaming is essentially an anticipative —but not predictive—tool going back millennia with one major objective: to anticipate outcomes of battles to come.
An apparently out-of-control dilemma can be resolved with adequate analysis and informed decisions being made by soliciting right people.
a wargame must involve key players with competing interests based on arguments, for example, over strategic or tactical plans, data or institutional culture.
The way and number of players involved in a wargame vary considerably according to each client’s set of objectives.
Wargamers serve as control group providing competing players with additional information or scenario shifts—“injects” in our terms.
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