Winning the Uncertainty Game: Turning Strategic Intent into Results with Wargaming

The book discusses how organizations can adapt to an ever-changing world by combining traditional management tools with military-style leadership and business wargaming. It offers a comprehensive introduction to business wargaming, including a historical account, classification of different types of games, and real-world examples.

Format: Hardback
Length: 190 pages
Publication date: 30 December 2020
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

The challenges that organizations face in an ever-changing world are the subject of this book. While traditional management tools, such as strategic planning processes, were once useful, they are no longer sufficient to address these challenges in a timely and comprehensive manner. While individual management tools may still be valid for solving specific problems, they need to be employed in conjunction with a clear understanding of the greater challenge and how they can be combined and prioritized with other approaches.

To achieve this, companies can apply the clarity of thinking from the military, which assigns leadership levels to specific responsibilities and outlines how these levels need to interact to produce a unified response to external opportunities or threats.

Business wargaming is an ideal tool for bringing all leadership levels together, aligning them around a common objective, and laying the groundwork for effective implementation of targeted responses that will keep the organization competitive and in the game for the long run.

The book provides a comprehensive introduction to business wargaming, including a historical account, a classification of different types of games, and a number of specific real-world examples. It is targeted at practicing managers dealing with the aforementioned challenges, as well as for students of business and strategy at every level.

Weight: 456g
Dimension: 241 x 161 x 21 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780367418526