ABSTRACT
The content, the environmental factors and the types of mission and engagement with an opponent, although this could be debated with respect to attack and defense, may be different, but the essence and the methodology work in a business setting as well. Unfortunately, in business today, people often see that everything is labeled “strategy” or “strategic” without a proper definition what really constitutes strategic versus operational versus tactical levels of leadership. But putting together an operational design and plan for execution by the executive board does not suffice, unless the third principle of vertical synchronization is applied as well. What this means is that the business units and individual teams within them, representing the “higher tactical level” and the “lower tactical levels”, respectively, need to be involved early on as well. The most prominent application of business wargaming to date, clearly rooted in its primary military application, has been in the field of strategy testing.
