The Ryan Group, Inc.

Event-Driven Strategy: A Tabletop Simulation for Visioning and Planning
 
Event-Driven Strategy: A Tabletop Simulation for Visioning and Planning subscribes to the notion that the future is not an extension of the past.  That the future will be defined by trigger events which, in many circumstances, cannot be planned for or anticipated, nor controlled.  And, that successful organizations will need to have plans and strategies in place allowing fast, fluid, and flexible responses to these events as they occur.
 
Event-Driven Strategy provides a means for participants to develop plans and strategies, evaluate market attractiveness, determine business strengths, identify critical resources, and understand the affects of culture on the success of the enterprise in a real-time context.
 
The setting is in a facilitator-led, two-day workshop where the participants are divided into teams. Teams compete against one another in developing a successful strategy and execution plan for a given business case.
 
The process is experienced through the use of a game board and its dynamic, interdependent components, which have corresponding exercises completed by the participants including
 
LANDSCAPE
Market Attractiveness
Business Strength
 
PLANS
Grow Sales
Reduce Costs
Improve Service      
Produce Efficiently
 
CULTURE
Multi-Generational
Knowledge Transfer
 
RESOURCES, USE OF
Capitalized Expenditures     
Expense Write-offs
 
OTHER FACTORS
Factors identified by each team
 
SCORECARD
Leader Board
 
TEAM PRESENTATIONS
 
STRATEGIES
Hedging Strategies—Betting on the future
Leveraging Strategies—Leveraging strengths
Shaping Strategies—Influencing with innovation
Trump Cards
 
PLAYING THE GAME
P-1, Trigger Events, Wild Cards
P-2, Trigger Events, Wild Cards
P-3, Trigger Events, Wild Cards
P-4, Trigger Events, Wild Cards
 
The teams develop plans and strategies based on the business landscape, availability and use of resources, culture influences, and other factors.  The facilitator controls the trigger events and wild cards and the teams compete against each other using a common case study scenario (see game board).  Teams develop hedging strategies, leveraging strategies, and shaping strategies they believe will be successful and are allowed a trump card to be used in each round of play. 
 
Workshops
Public workshops with open enrollment.
Private in-house workshops at client site or off site.
University-sponsored workshops with complementary seats for professors.
 
Schedule
Workshops are scheduled throughout the year at various locations.  Please contact us for current schedule.
 
Cost
Cost varies according to workshop type.  Please contact us.  
 
Contact
The Ryan Group, Inc.
(214) 613-2582
www.ryangroupinc.com  
Wayne Davis
wayne.davis@ryangroupinc.com