Policy Games for Strategic Management

This book explains why and how gaming-stimulation techniques have been used in Europe and the United States to improve decision quality on a special class of bewildering and threatening strategic problems that are described as strategic volcanoes or 'macr

1.1 Introduction This chapter describes our assumptions, goals, and key concepts
; it presents a short history of serious gaming, and positions policy games among
related management techniques. 1.2 Assumptions and Goals This section
addresses four concerns: the phenomena of urgent organizational crises that we
label “strategic volcanoes”; the challenges that leadership faces when entering
uncharted territory or “terra incognita”; the creation of “safe environments” that
assist ...