Planning a franchise headquarters pilot?

Use the new 90-minute pilot pack, sample reports and facilitator console for a six-team challenge.

HOST’S FIELD GUIDE

Bring your team to the war table.

A facilitated business rehearsal: choose a plan, respond to a rival, and explain what you would do next. Three rounds. One decision record.

Planning ahead · No public event date or registration has been announced.

Open the rehearsal →Download host guide Download team scorecard

Choose your format

One shared table

One signed-in operator runs Strategy Room on a laptop or projector. Participants take company, rival, customer, and facilitator roles. All role briefs are visible.

Several independent teams

Each team uses its own operator account and private rehearsal. The facilitator gives every team the same rival, disruption, and starting assumptions, then collects their downloaded decision memos.

There is no shared online multiplayer room, private role messaging, or shared-market tournament. The new facilitator console compares imported independent rehearsals. Team coordination and score collection are facilitated in person or over your own call.

A 75-minute session

0–10 min · Brief the roomAssign roles. Set a common scenario and agree how you will compare decisions.
10–20 min · Commit to a planProtect the core, improve operations, or open a second area. Record why.
20–50 min · Play three roundsAllow ten minutes per round. Discuss a move, write its rationale, then commit it. The selected disruption starts in round two.
50–65 min · Compare the outcomesReview closing cash, operating profit, jobs completed, unserved demand, and whether reserves stayed safe.
65–75 min · Capture the lessonWrite the lesson, owner, and next decision trigger. Download every team’s memo before starting a fresh rehearsal.

Before players arrive

Choose the event date, facilitator, team count, and meeting location or call link.
Have each operator sign in, open Strategy Room, complete a practice round, and confirm it survives a reload.
Keep one active rehearsal tab per operator account. Use separate accounts for separate teams.
Test the actual laptop, projector, phone, internet connection, and browser zoom. Keep power connected.
Export any existing campaign or decision memo before resetting. Check that downloads open on the host’s device.
Use identical starting assumptions for comparisons. Treat cash, service, reserves, and reasoning as separate measures; agree any tie-break before play.
If a save warning appears, stop making decisions, preserve an export, and reconnect before continuing.

Optional campaign displays

For the main business campaign, open one table display and optional markets, headquarters, or world displays in the same browser profile on the same computer and website address. Only one table or full-game window should run the clock. These display links do not synchronize different computers or Strategy Room rehearsals.