Serious Game Resilience

Future Shock, the Serious Game by Michel Levy Provençal and Guy-Philippe Goldstein.

FUTURE-SHOCK, a Serious Game to prepare you for future shocks.

In a particularly unstable geopolitical and economic context, a company with international influence is faced with a serious crisis whose impact on its economic activity could be unprecedented. At its side, consulting firms and think tanks compete to propose the best possible strategy. This is without taking into account the many twists and turns that will upset everyone's certainties.

Organized in teams, the firms take turns pitching their solutions to a demanding client who is increasingly subject to market tensions.

Which team will win the client's favor? Will they be able to define a viable strategy to deal with the looming disruption?

2 formats

Acculturation workshop (4 hours)

• A four-hour workshop designed to help teams become acculturated to uncertainty management through play. It's also an excellent team-building workshop.

• The workshop features 2 scenarios.

• Participants will work in teams to develop strategies for dealing with potential crises and present their solutions to a demanding client.

Strategic workshop (one day)

• A one-day workshop designed to help teams prepare for future challenges in a volatile geopolitical and economic environment.

• Participants will have the opportunity to play up to 5 scenarios adapted to the issues and business sector they wish to explore.

• Depending on the time available and the preferences of the group, the scenarios address a variety of potential crises that the teams might face.

• Participants will work in teams to develop strategies to address these challenges and present their solutions to a demanding client. The objective of this workshop is to strengthen the ability of teams to anticipate and respond effectively to complex and uncertain situations.

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

Trends and scenarios

TRENDSPOTTING podcasts

"FUTURE SHOCK" uses realistic scenarios based on continuously analyzed trends. The TRENDSPOTTING podcast, broadcast twice a month, explores these emerging trends which are used to develop our scenarios.

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

Duration

Preparation

A few days before: reception of the game file allowing the teams to read the scenario.

The game session

4 to 7 hours of presentation, game and debriefing.

Formats

2 versions available (one-day workshop, or 4-hour acculturation and team-building session)

Languages

Choice of French or English.

Targets, issues and educational objectives

Typical audience

• 15 people maximum

• 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?

Skills acquired

1. Prioritization of objectives in an uncertain environment

2. Analysis of all risks & solutions; at the same time identification of non-compliant cases

3. Idea development & creative solutions

4. Confidence in speaking / getting to the point in public pitches

5. Ability to search for information/question teammates

6. Ability to establish a critical and constructive dialogue

7. Development of a "big picture" in a new general context taking into account "traditional" internal and external constraints

"FUTURE-SHOCK" is a program adapted to the real problems of your company.

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.

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