Why Competitive Gaming works

Most companies who participate in Competitive Wargames gain share in the following months and year. Some even create long term strategic advantage through ideas created in the process.

Competitive Wargaming exercises bring together all the decision makers on how best to grow the business and how to bring the competition. Gathering as a team and reaffirming this simple goal, amongst the many others we all work on every day, is already a great step forward. But add into that a few more things and it is easy to see why Competitive wargames are so successful. 

Firstly, there is a data-driven discussion on your competition – their strengths, opportunities, favourite playbooks against you. Then you put yourselves in the competition’s shoes, pretend to be them and work out how to beat you. It is both liberating and insightful, throwing up great ideas on what could happen – so you can design how to stop them, and be the winners yourselves. Once you have had some fun doing this, you bring together all the insights and draw together specific action plans on how to beat the competition – based on what you knew before, but critically also new insights you have gained in the process.

The focused approach, and the desire created to win in the process, is why Competitive Wargaming works.

The Competitive Wargaming Team specialises in making this happen. Let me know if you would like to hear more on how we can help you!