In order to recognize and eliminate the weak points.Īnd the third and most important goal is for you to identify your greatest future opportunities in the potential attacks of your competitors by reversing them. That’s why many government agencies and enterprises simulate attacks on their IT or infrastructure. This will make your alignment and strategy more robust for the future.
The second goal is to prevent these attacks by preparing for them. To drive your business into insignificance and bankruptcy.Īnd how they could use the latest amazing technologies and the most intelligent strategies to make you disappear from the market.īut a wargame is supposed to deliberately scare your team only in the first part, in order to wake up a possibly too complacent team. The purpose of a wargame is that you can imagine what competitors could do and how they could do it to take away your orders and your customers. In this way, by inventing a previously unimagined but plausible and frightening scenario of an attack by a strong opponent the horrible scenario was possibly prevented from happening. The book was printed and read a couple of hundred thousand times and caused enormous sensation and hot and anxious discussions.Īs a consequence the British hurried to strengthen their army and navy again and made enormous investments. William, the Emperor of the German Empire. Written by George Chesney in 1871, one year before the alleged attack. Great Britain had to hand over its role as the leading naval power as well as the huge Commonwealth to the German Empire.īut wait: the whole thing never happened. The Germans conquered Great Britain and made it a highly taxed province of the German Empire. In the decisive battle at Dorking, the Germans defeated the British. Surprising because there was no obvious reason for the attack, no dispute, no conflict, no crisis. In addition, Britain had demilitarized itself to a large extent and the soldiers were poorly trained. Both the British Navy and the army were scattered throughout the world to expand and maintain the Commonwealth. The British Navy was destroyed by so-called “fatal engines”.
The Germans were in the midst of a strong industrialization and also highly motivated by the foundation of the Reich. And one year after the foundation of the German Empire on 01 January 1871. It was one year after the victory of the North German Confederation under the leadership of the Prussian army over France. In 1872 there was an attack of the German Reich on Great Britain. It’s only about a harmless, but very inspiring thought game in the field of business. Let me say this upfront: I am a peaceful person and do not advocate aggression or war here.
You can also use other common names, such as “be the enemy” or “nightmare competitor” or “disrupt me”. If you call it a wargame, they’ll more inclined to participate. Where are the blind spots in your strategy, where you are vulnerable, but also where your best opportunities for the future lie?Ī wargame is a role-playing game, but don’t invite your colleagues to a role-playing game. Together with my team at FutureManagementGroup, I have played countless exciting wargames over the last 20 years.Ī wargame is a workshop to simulate conceivable, probable and also surprising attacks by competitors against your company and to learn from them. I’m here to give you instructions on your wargame. You lack the really good ideas how to make your business great and future-proof again? Wargame Are you bothered by fears of the future?.Are you worried about the sustainability of your business?.Are you the leader of a company, a business unit or a team?.
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