GOVERNMENT
Turn Complexity to Your Advantage
THE PROBLEM
For decades, U.S. national security institutions have relied on structured, linear planning models rooted in cause-and-effect logic.
While effective in predictable environments, these approaches struggle in today’s complex, adaptive landscape. Tactical victories no longer guarantee strategic success. Modern operating environments are nonlinear, interdependent, and driven by human systems that generate cascading second- and third-order effects—often in ways traditional analytic frameworks fail to anticipate.
THE SOLUTION
I.D.E.A.L.
ILLUMINATE
Illuminating Ill-Structured, Complex Problems and Challenges.
- Uncover hidden root causes beyond traditional analysis using our proprietary design thinking-based methodology to frame complex problems.
- Understand complex threat actions, campaigns, and strategies to forecast threat actions and inform friendly counter strategies.
- Leverage artificial intelligence’s structured analytics at scale to “structure the known” and allow leaders to then harness the unique capacity of humans to apply ill-structured analytics and problem-solving.
DESIGN
Designing innovative strategies to overcome complex problems and challenges.
- Solve complex, ill-structured problems using our proprietary design methodology, including strategies, implementation plans, assessment plans, and organizational design.
- Use the ends-ways-means model as the foundation for strategy formulation, where means inform resourcing and authority processes, which, in turn, enable strategy implementation, also known as campaigning.
- Develop multi-year strategies or strategic frameworks and implementation plans with nested assessments, innovation initiatives, and risk mitigation measures as a framework for decision-making at all levels.
EXPERIENCE
Experiencing complexity to test strategies and train leaders and organizations through safe-to-fail complex simulations.
- Validate strategies and implementation plans in safe-to-fail wargames and tabletop exercises that match real-world complexity to identify second and third-order effects before real-world execution.
- Understand how complex environments will adapt throughout the cycle of strategy implementation, enhancing the identification of risks, opportunities, and the forecast of future actions and impacts.
- Train leaders and organizations to become comfortable with complexity—including complex environments, complex challenges, and complex friendly organizational interactions.
ADDRESS
Addressing complex challenges by implementing strategies through adaptable and integrated campaigning
- Overcome complex challenges by linking real-time tactical actions employing forces, resources and authorities to achieve desired strategic outcomes to gain and maintain strategic advantage.
- Use the measures of effectiveness and performance together to understand successes, learn from failures, and adapt strategy implementation to the ever-changing, complex environment.
- Use the measures of effectiveness and performance together to understand successes, learn from failures, and adapt strategy implementation to the ever-changing, complex environment.
LEAD
Leading complex teams in complex environments to successfully overcome complex challenges.
- Develop leaders and organizations comfortable with complexity theory and operating in complexity.
- Grow unique leadership skills required to lead complex teams of humans, such as experimentation, true mission command, and comfort with failure, unknowns, and low-data, high-risk environments.
- Use behavioral assessments to understand and optimize team dynamics and opportunities for success.
Government Services
Strategic & Operational Support
Providing advanced support to unites and commanders at the edge, providing strategic implementation and campaigning, including special operations, intelligence operations, sensitive activities, irregular warfare, and irregular deterrents and response options (national resilience and resistance).
Strategic & Organizational Design
Providing advanced strategy and organizational design for navigating complex environments, threats, challenges, and wicked problems successfully.
Training & Education
Designing advanced, tailored operational and strategic training to develop leaders and organizations’ way of thinking (not what to think), with emphasis on illuminating complex challenges, strategic futures and foresight thinking, strategic thinking, campaigning, and leadership in complexity.
Wargaming & Simulations
Developing immersive, scenario-driven wargaming in a safe to fail environment to stress-test strategies, decisions, and identify second and third-order consequences, as well as develop resilient and adaptable organizations.
Analysis & Research
Performing advanced, bespoke analysis of problems from operational to strategic, including intelligence analysis, and geopolitical analysis to inform regional and global clients.
Force Protection, Risk Reduction & Operational Security
Providing tailored force protection and risk management through deep threat intelligence and signature reduction (digital exhaust), to identify exposure, risk, and adversary insight across operational environments.
Leadership Coaching
Providing tailored leadership coaching to increase comfort with complexity theory and how it applies to decision-making and leadership in industry.