Learning Guides
Session designs and facilitation support for each of the five strategy learning solutions — designed to minimize prep and maximize impact
1. What Learning Guides Are
Less Prep, Deeper Learning
Learning Guides are session designs, debrief structures, and facilitation resources designed to help educators, L&D professionals, coaches, and parents run structured strategy learning experiences with OFMOS® games. Each strategy learning solution is a designed experience at a specific level — defined by what the learner needs to see, what the facilitator directs attention to, and what phenomena the game surfaces. The guides are specific documents that support facilitators in delivering that experience in particular contexts. Each guide corresponds to one of the five strategy learning solutions structured by the Five Business Big Pictures — and there can be multiple guides per level, covering different contexts, audiences, session lengths, industries, and applications.
Each guide provides what a facilitator needs to walk into the room ready: session outlines, level-specific debrief structures, facilitation notes, guidance on which mods to introduce and when, and connections to the theoretical foundation. The goal is not to script the session but to reduce preparation time and make the connection between gameplay and strategic insight as clear and transferable as possible.
The game itself requires no Learning Guide to play. The OFMOS® Essential Rulebook is self-contained — it includes a Business Concepts section that maps every action to its real-world strategic equivalent, and four Mods that extend the core rules. Everything needed to play and facilitate at the Product Level is in the box. The Learning Guides deepen and structure the experience for facilitators who want to work at a specific level with specific learning outcomes.
2. Guides by Level
Five Levels, Multiple Guides per Level
Guides are organized by the five levels of the Five Business Big Pictures. Each level represents a level of reality at which strategic thinking operates — and each surfaces phenomena that do not exist at other levels. The same board, the same core rules, 2–4 players. What changes is the facilitator's framing, the structured debrief, and the level-specific mods.
Strategy at the Individual Level — Guides for developing the coherent mental model that every higher level depends on. Focus areas: individual decision-making, the hierarchical structure of needs, and the dynamics of learning.
Download the Strategy Learning Guide for the Individual Level (Pilot Edition) (PDF)
Strategy at the Human-AI Level — Guides for managing AI tools as a strategic portfolio. Focus areas: perceived value and functional complexity of AI tools, commoditization of AI capabilities, and the boundary between human judgment and AI delegation.
Download the Strategy Learning Guide for the Human-AI Level (Pilot Edition) (PDF)
Strategy at the Product Level — Guides for experiencing the full strategic system. Focus areas: portfolio dynamics, the commoditization force, the strategic logic of innovation, synergy formations, and strategic positioning. For sessions without a facilitator, this is the default game level — the Rulebook supports play at this level out of the box. Learning Guides add structured session designs for classroom, workshop, and multi-session contexts.
Download the Strategy Learning Guide for the Product Level (Pilot Edition) (PDF)
Strategy at the Company Level — Guides for managing a company as a system of ofmos. Focus areas: multi-market portfolio management, Ofmos Portfolio Alignment, and the compounding consequences of strategic decisions across time horizons.
Strategy at the Economy Level — Guides for seeing the macro forces that shape every industry. Focus areas: tofmos dynamics, Tofmos Portfolio Dispersion, the structural tendency of economies to drift downward, and the role of aggregate vendor innovation — the mechanism of creative destruction — as the structural counterforce to the economy's downward drift.
3. Who They Are For
For Anyone Who Facilitates Strategic Thinking Development
Educators — from K-12 teachers and CTE instructors to university professors — integrating OFMOS® into strategy courses, MBA modules, business policy courses, or capstone programs, whether as a scaffolding tool early in a course, a capstone experience at the end, or a recurring simulation across a full semester.
L&D professionals deploying the simulation in corporate workshops, executive education programs, onboarding initiatives, or leadership development sessions — in single-match, tournament, or multi-session formats.
Coaches working with professionals, teams, or organizations who want structured strategy development experiences — whether in individual engagements, team offsites, or multi-session professional development arcs.
Parents who want to facilitate deeper strategic thinking development with their teenagers using structured session guidance beyond what the rulebook provides.
Not sure which level fits your context? See OFMOS® for Educators, OFMOS® for L&D Professionals, OFMOS® for Coaches, or OFMOS® for Parents for guidance on where to start.
4. Current Status
In Development — but You Can Start Now
Learning Guides for each of the five levels are in development. Pilot guides will be published alongside or shortly after the main edition of OFMOS® Essential. Additional guides — covering different contexts, audiences, session lengths, and industries — will follow as they are developed. Multiple guides per level will be published as they become available.
In the meantime, the OFMOS® Essential Rulebook provides everything needed to play and facilitate at the Product Level — including the Business Concepts section and four Mods. Educators, L&D professionals, coaches, and parents who want to begin using OFMOS® Essential before the Learning Guides are published are encouraged to contact us. We are actively working with early adopters and welcome the opportunity to support your session design.