Better at strategy, not just at talking about it.
Many companies look at wargaming to simulate competition. It is often a one-off event: useful for insight, less so for building capability systematically.
PA Consulting runs scenario-based wargaming workshops for corporate clients. Strategy Quest offers multi-round strategy rehearsal your own team can run. Here is how they compare.
| PA Consulting wargaming | Strategy Quest | |
|---|---|---|
| Delivered by | External consultants | Your own facilitators, with our support |
| Format | One-off workshop | Replayable multi-round simulation |
| After the session | A report and a deck | A simulation you can run again |
| Stakeholders | Played by people in the room | AI executives with agendas and memory |
Our summary of how the two approaches differ, based on publicly available information about PA Consulting wargaming. Talk to both before you choose.
Many companies look at wargaming to simulate competition. It is often a one-off event: useful for insight, less so for building capability systematically.
Consultant-led wargames can be engaging, and they are shaped by the consultants in the room.
Afterwards there is usually no system that keeps running: no repeated feedback and no simulation that tracks what the team decided over time.
We replace the whiteboard with a live simulation: multi-round decisions, real trade-offs and internal politics, all replayable.
Your team gets feedback it cannot ignore, and that feedback shapes the next round.
Instead of hosting one great event, you build a capability. Teams stop guessing and start anticipating, tracking and adapting.
You stop outsourcing strategy practice and start building it inside your own team.
I've participated in Strategy Quest twice now. Both times were incredibly enriching, full of learning and fun.
Strategy Quest is one of the most engaging ways I've seen to explore what it feels like to lead innovation.
I would trade my MBA for such an immersive learning experience.
A safe rehearsal of a real strategic decision. Participants step into a living organisation, work with the people in it, make choices and see the consequences play out over several rounds, instead of reading about them in a case study.
A facilitator builds an organisation in about 20 minutes: its market, its numbers and an executive team of AI stakeholders, each with a role, an agenda and a memory. Participants get a mandate, email those stakeholders, gather information, build support and submit a strategy. The executive team reacts to it, and the next round starts from where they left it.
Consultancies that want to rehearse an engagement, in-house strategy and transformation teams, leadership programmes and business schools. Anyone who has to make a high-stakes call with incomplete information and other people who disagree.
You decide. A single quest fits in a two to three hour session, and a series can run over several weekly rounds. Workshops, offsites and multi-week programmes all work.
Yes. Start from a new organisation in a real market, build one from scratch, or base it on a specific organisation. The people inside the simulation are always fictional.
Yes. Everything runs in the browser, so participants can play from anywhere, alone or in teams.
Every submission gets a reaction from the executive team, and the facilitator sees decisions, conversations and scores as they happen. That gives the debrief real material to work with instead of opinions.