Winning the Uncertainty Game: Turning Strategic Intent into Results with Wargaming - Hardcover

by Daniel F. Oriesek (Author), Jan Oliver Schwarz (Author)

The book offers a comprehensive introduction to business wargaming, including a historical account, a classification of different types of games and a number of specific real world examples.

Author Biography

Daniel F. Oriesek is a Swiss general staff officer, civil servant and entrepreneur. After many years in banking and strategy consulting, while pursuing his military career as a reserve officer, he served two tours in the Balkans and in 2014 became a full-time employee of the Swiss Department of Defense. He serves on the board of a real estate company co-founded by him and has participated, designed and conducted numerous business and military wargames.

Jan Oliver Schwarz is a professor of strategic management and leadership at the ESB Business School, Reutlingen University, Germany and a senior advisor at the Institute for Innovation and Change Methodologies (IICM), Munich, Germany. His academic and consulting work specializes in future-oriented strategy development which includes implementing corporate foresight processes and applying approaches such as scenario planning and business wargaming.