War-gaming

Posted on January 24, 2006
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This is an interesting post on a couple of levels.

This post is about how groups surface assumptions,  think, make decisions and set effective strategy (or fail to) when they don’t know everything they’d wish to. Iran just happens to be a really good example right now of why it’s important (for any organization) to be able to do all that under pressure and in depth.
The term “war-gaming” is thrown around alot inside of SAP, but we’re not really doing war-gaming because we’re not simulating mistakes and rerunning the game. I don’t think we’re exceptional on this point either. The other side of the coin is that strategy and decision making in far too many companies I’ve seen occurs in an echo chamber where public messaging become assumptions upon which strategy is built. For all of it’s faults and warts, there is much that can be learned from the way that the public sector works, case in point is military strategy development.

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