Turn a consequential end goal into a multidimensional strategy that maps in real-time the people, assets, moves, contingencies, and risks needed to achieve it.
Master Game Board is a multidimensional strategy tool built for complex situations where achieving a specific outcome requires more power than a traditional strategic plan. Starting with the end goal, it creates a dynamic strategy around the people, organizations, relationships, obstacles, and contingencies that can influence success, helping leaders stay three steps ahead and know how to respond at each move along the way.
Unlike enterprise strategy tools designed to manage multiple organizational priorities, Master Game Board works in real-time to achieve one significant, consequential result. The process begins by defining the result and activating the environment around it. Leaders work with Master Game Board’s subject matter experts to assess the assets, stakeholders, relationships, and roadblocks that can help advance the goal or maneuver around its blockages.
The result is a live strategy built around quickly changing realities rather than a static plan.
Master Game Board maps the people and assets surrounding an objective into target categories based on their current or potential ability to influence the outcome. Leaders identify existing supporters, active opposition, relationships that can be developed, and players unlikely to be moved, while understanding how those dynamics intersect and can be navigated toward the specific goal.
Those insights become the foundation for Master Game Board’s living strategy. Teams map primary moves, prepare contingencies, anticipate risk, and adjust their approach as circumstances change. Instead of reacting after something happens, Master Game Board guides leaders to think and stay several moves ahead.
Originally developed for complex national security environments in the Middle East, Master Game Board has been adapted to help executives and organizations tackle consequential business and mission objectives. The framework is fully customizable to the specific goal, operating environment, human dynamics, obstacles, and risks surrounding each challenge to help leaders develop and shift the strategic landscape in their favor.
