The Game Plan
...It's time to move your mission forward
We tailor all simulations to meet your needs and goals.
Need to improve impact? Planning to scale? Anticipate potential funding loss? Collaborate or merge?
From your earliest discussions with us through final deliverables, we will work with you to define the problem, understand your timeframe, and work with your staff and stakeholders to provide insight.
step one
Define Problem
Let’s focus on your challenge…- Select key funders, nonprofits
- Identify pain points
- Choose time horizon (This year, next year, or next 10 years?)
- Target sector
- Decide key strategic issue
step two
Research & Analysis
We help prepare your case and examine the facts…
- Interview stakeholders and board
- Interview external thought leaders
- Analyze demographic and social trends
- Compose profiles
- Publish briefing book with in-depth analysis
step three
The Game
Discover that Ah-ha moment…
- Today's Challenge
Strategic Opportunity Workshop
Stress test your strategy
- Design game model
- Facilitate discussion
- Respond to disruption
- Offer counter strategy
- Revise strategy
- Identify critical next steps
- Tomorrow's Challenge
Scenario Analysis
Anticipate your future options
- Identify uncertainties
- Craft future story elements
- Compose scenario
- Distill strategic imperatives
- Roleplay future strategy (optional)
step four
Strategic Playbook
Provide you with a plan to move forward- Identify critical decisions
- Align capacity-building steps
- Recognize critical areas of impact
- Develop funding map of greatest opportunities
- Examine alternate growth scenarios
- Outline timetable and budgets
