Complex decisions deserve a rehearsal.

Activist investor or hostile bid

Decision question: Who holds decision rights at each stage, and what will the board concede, if anything, and when?

Board, investors, proxy advisers and bidders can set a fast-moving public narrative.

Competitor response to a major move

Decision question: Does market entry, a pricing reset or capacity expansion still pay if an incumbent responds?

A competitor cell can test retaliation against the economics assumed in a business case.

Post-merger integration

Decision question: What must be secured in the first 100 days while competitors seek customers and talent?

Internal integration demands and external poaching can reinforce attrition.

Ransomware or cyber extortion

Decision question: Who decides on containment, disclosure, restoration and any extortion demand, and in what sequence?

Legal, technical, operational and communication clocks may differ; applicable reporting duties must be checked for each case.

Supply-chain chokepoint failure

Decision question: Which sourcing, inventory and customer-allocation choices should be made before a critical node fails?

Stock-outs may emerge after a delay; responses by other buyers can intensify scarcity.

Regulatory regime shift

Decision question: Should the organisation adapt minimally, influence a consultation where lawful, or redesign for advantage?

Regulators, industry bodies and competitors respond on different timelines.

Business-model disruption

Decision question: When should an incumbent replace part of its own revenue before a new model does it?

A game can expose capability-build delays and conflicting internal incentives.

Product safety or reputation crisis

Decision question: What triggers recall, disclosure or service suspension, and who can authorise it out of hours?

Customer trust, legal advice, employee information and public communication interact.

High-stakes negotiation

Decision question: What is the real walk-away position, and what coalitions can the other party build?

A credible counterpart cell tests assumptions about leverage and concessions.

Liquidity and financial stress

Decision question: Which actions stop funding pressure, counterparty caution and reputation loss from amplifying one another?

Treasury, board and communications decisions may need to align before conditions deteriorate.

Grey-zone maritime coercion

Decision question: Which agency owns each response option below an armed-conflict threshold?

Attribution, jurisdiction, signalling and private maritime interests complicate escalation management.

Border crisis and escalation

Decision question: What signals might each response send, and where could either side misread intent?

Domestic audiences, incomplete information and reciprocal moves matter.

Critical infrastructure cascade

Decision question: Which services are restored first when power, telecoms, water, finance and transport depend on one another?

A restoration plan can fail at inter-agency and operator handoffs.

Multi-site terrorist attack

Decision question: How is unified command maintained across agencies while information is incomplete and media is live?

The game can test coordination, public communication and decision authority at a high level.

Mass-scale emergency

Decision question: How are scarce resources allocated across jurisdictions over a prolonged event?

Duration brings fatigue, compliance changes and political pressure into the model.

Economic coercion and sanctions exposure

Decision question: How do financial, trade and diplomatic choices interact when external restrictions change?

Banks, insurers, firms and partner governments may respond differently.

Information operations and election integrity

Decision question: Who verifies a fast-moving false claim, and how is a lawful response coordinated before voting or counting is affected?

Platforms, election authorities, media and security agencies have distinct duties.

Policy stress test before rollout

Decision question: How might regulated parties adapt to a subsidy, incentive or tax change?

A game can reveal perverse incentives, gaps and implementation friction before rollout.

Strategic maritime chokepoint closure

Decision question: How do reserves, refiners, shipping, insurance and state capacity interact through a sustained closure?

The critical decisions often occur at the boundary between government and industry.

Insider threat in safety-critical systems

Decision question: Where might detection and intervention fail when a trusted operator is involved?

Operators, regulators and workforce representatives must balance safety, privacy and fair reporting.

Multiple maritime and supply chokepoints

Decision question: Which rerouting, buffer and customer-priority decisions remain workable if several routes are disrupted together?

Activism plus contested acquisition

Decision question: How do the board, bidders, advisers and holders respond when an activist campaign and bid overlap?

Asymmetric platform disruption

Decision question: When should a firm change its own offer as a new platform changes customer expectations?

Compound cyber, operational and financial crisis

Decision question: How do restoration, disclosure, financing and stakeholder confidence interact in one incident?

Biopharma loss of exclusivity

Decision question: How might originators, competitors, payers and prescribers react as exclusivity ends?

Sanctions and forced market exit

Decision question: Which staged decisions preserve lawful options, people and critical operations as restrictions change?

Post-merger informal network loss

Decision question: Which hidden relationships sustain delivery and customer trust through integration?

Major physical asset incident

Decision question: How do technical response, public communication, insurers and authorities coordinate after a serious loss?

Market liquidity and counterparty contagion

Decision question: Which exposures and decisions matter as counterparties become cautious together?

Critical mineral or semiconductor squeeze

Decision question: How do allocation, substitution, sourcing and rival demand change the feasible options?

Subsea infrastructure disruption

Decision question: How are attribution, public communication and cross-agency response coordinated after an undersea service loss?

National infrastructure blackstart

Decision question: Which interdependent services and authorities must be sequenced to restore essential functions?

Sovereign debt and currency stress

Decision question: How do policy signals, reserves, banking confidence and external actors interact under market stress?

Novel outbreak and information disorder

Decision question: How do health measures, supply allocation and public trust evolve over a prolonged emergency?

Frontier AI governance under competitive pressure

Decision question: How do regulators, developers, users and other jurisdictions respond to different governance choices?

Orbital debris and satellite-service loss

Decision question: What continuity decisions matter if navigation, timing or communications services degrade?

Multiple food-system shocks

Decision question: How do reserves, trade restrictions, prices and humanitarian needs interact across borders?

Compound urban disaster

Decision question: How are rescue, health, utilities and transport priorities coordinated when hazards overlap?

Electoral misinformation crisis

Decision question: How do election authorities and platforms verify claims and communicate without compromising lawful process?

Energy transition and grid stress

Decision question: How do reliability, affordability and transition choices perform under prolonged supply stress?