Description

By using this framework, teams can develop strategies that don’t focus on achieving goals but rather on defining winning strategies that will let them compete more effectively. This playful tool helps you understand your environment and the forces affecting all the players in your playground (competitors). It also helps you think like your competitors in order to develop a strategy that is competitive enough to win.

Type: Framework and Board
Digital and Physical versions are available.

Rules:

• Game conditions can change depending on the external environment, but these conditions affect all players equally.

• The concept of winning can be defined differently by each player. One player may want to get 20% of the market, while another may want 40%, target a different segment, or reduce costs and waste.

• Each player needs to build a winning strategy.

• Team members who are playing as their competitors must think as their competitors do. In order to win, you must understand how they think and what their current strategy is.

Step 1: Analyze external factors affecting the playground, such as:

• Technological factors defining the conditions of the playground.

• Economic environment affecting how an organization does business and its profitability.

• Social environment affecting shared beliefs and attitudes of the population.

• Environmental forces influencing how the company meets sustainability and carbon reduction targets.

Step 2: Discuss findings and decide how you’re going to win.

• How will the environment and its forces change during implementation?

• What is most likely to change?

• Competitors play the same game but may define winning differently.

Step 3: Climb up the ladder to win.

• There are five steps you need to take to win.

• Each step challenges you to think about key strategic decisions and actions.

Discover more here (blog post)