FUTURE SHOCK - The serious game for managing uncertainty
Prepare your teams for unexpected geopolitical, economic or technological shocks. FUTURE SHOCK simulates realistic scenarios and trains you to decide quickly, as a team, with a clear, structured vision.
Why FUTURE SHOCK?
In an unstable world, the question is no longer "if" but "when" the next shocks will occur. Through play, your teams experiment with crisis situations and develop strategic responses, which are then presented to the most demanding "customer": your management.
Decision-making under uncertainty and time pressure
Mapping risks and opportunities, devising robust strategies
Aligning teams and enhancing the quality of discussions
"FUTURE-SHOCK" is a program adapted to the real problems of your company.
Formats
15
Max. participants (reco.)
4-7h
Duration according to format
fr/en
Available languages
Strategic workshop - 1 day
In-depth immersion, focused on your challenges.
Up to 5 customized scenarios
Complete course: briefing → game → pitches → debriefing
Production of concrete, measurable actions
Acculturation workshop - 4h
Express discovery of uncertainty management through play.
2 scenarios in play
Teamwork, pitch mode
Ideal for seminars & kick-offs
Skills developed
Prioritization
Allocate resources & arbitrate quickly.
Multi-risk analysis
Identify risks/leverage & imagine options.
Creativity
Generate actionable ideas.
Speaking out
Clear, convincing, impact-oriented pitches.
Collective intelligence
Coordination and information sharing.
System vision
Linking short-term and big-picture.
Teaching methods
The program alternates between scenario presentations, trend identification, gaming sessions, interaction activities, pitches and summaries (hot and cold).
PRESENTATION OF SCENARIOS & TRENDS
Discover the scenario and the main trends to enter the game.
GAME SESSIONS
Team building and game sessions. Each round corresponds to the emergence of a shock and the identification of responses to this shock.
PITCH
Each team presents its strategy in the form of a summary pitch to respond to the possible future shock.
DEBRIEF
The program provides the opportunity for two summaries, one hot and one cold, to review the content and form of the exercise. The teams leave with plausible action plans to deal with the shock studied
Animation mode
A face-to-face program
The program delivered in person.
Preparatory and summary meetings can be held via video conference on Teams, Zoom or Google Meet
1 - Brief & trends
Analytical framework, weak signals and structuring assumptions for each scenario.
2 - Play & shock
Teams in think-tank mode; unexpected events upset your plans.
3 - Pitch & debrief
Customer feedback, cross feedback and extraction of key lessons.
Targets, issues and educational objectives
Typical audience
Directorates General
Marketing departments.
Human resources departments.
Managers
Strategic teams
Innovation departments
Issue
How to manage uncertainty?
How to foster a culture of innovation?
How can we identify weak signals and trends that allow us to design responses to future disruptions?
How to prepare for the shocks to come?
Stakeholders
Guy Philippe Goldstein
Guy-Philippe Goldstein is a geopolitical and cyber researcher, consultant and novelist. He is a lecturer at the Ecole de Guerre Economique (Paris) and contributes to the academic journal of the INSS (Institute for National Security Studies) in Tel Aviv. He is also an advisor to PriceWaterhouseCoopers on issues such as forward-looking studies on global and geopolitical risks, or on business valuation and cyber-risks. He also conducts forward-looking work on the future of warfare for the French Ministry of Defense and for national companies. He is a frequent keynote speaker at think tank conferences and private company meetings, including several large insurance, banking, utility, and luxury brand companies.
Michel Levy Provençal
After creating TEDxParis, the first TEDx conference in Europe in 2009, Michel Levy Provençal now devotes his time to developing the Brightness agency. He works with companies and public actors by delivering conferences and coaching their leaders. Certified by Oxford University in Scenario Planning, he teaches at SciencesPo and has published three methodological and foresight books since 2017. He also writes regular columns in Les Echos. He is recognized as one of the leading voices in the French innovation ecosystem.