RED ALERT - The serious game for anticipating, deciding and acting under pressure

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Written by Michel Levy provençal
 
 

An immersive half-day simulation to train your teams to navigate in an unstable world, between geopolitical tensions and technological disruptions. Turn crises into strategic opportunities.

 

Why RED ALERT now?

We're entering a period of extreme volatility: war in Europe, trade tensions, weakened supply chains, widespread use of generative AI... All factors that demand anticipation and responsiveness. Red Alert places your teams in a crisis cell to test rapid decision-making, coordination and communication under pressure.

Express discovery of uncertainty management through play.

  • 2 scenarios in play

  • Teamwork, pitch mode

  • Ideal for seminars & kick-offs

Concrete results

  • Identify threats and weak signals relevant to your business.

  • Develop robust, time-boxed action plans.

  • Reinforce clear communication with stakeholders.

  • Equipping the team for scenario planning and resilience.

 

Objectives

  • Raising awareness of geopolitical and technological risks.

  • Strengthen strategic thinking and anticipation.

  • Train rapid, collective decision-making.

  • Improve communication under pressure.

Target skills

  • Anticipation of business impacts.

  • Agility & individual resilience.

  • Strategic responsiveness.

  • Convincing presentation.

Audience

  • Management committees, senior executives.

  • Marketing, HR, Innovation.

  • Risk & economic security.

  • Teams exposed to global issues.

 

Teaching methods

The program alternates between scenario presentations, trend identification, gaming sessions, interaction activities, pitches and summaries (hot and cold).

15

Max. participants (reco.)

4h

1/2-day program

 

fr/en

Available languages

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 - Opening brief

Geopolitical and technological context, simulation objectives and team roles.

2 - Team simulation

Work on realistic scenarios: risk assessment, trade-offs, decisions and communication.

3 - Debriefing & learning

Feedback, extraction of lessons learned, transposition to your processes and priorities.

 

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.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Michel Levy Provençal https://mikiane.com
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