Official Strategy Learning Guides

1. What Learning Guides Are
Less Prep, Deeper Learning

Official Strategy Learning Guides are session designs, debrief structures, and facilitation resources designed to help educators, L&D professionals, and independent facilitators run structured strategy learning experiences with OFMOS® games. Each strategy learning solution is a designed experience at a specific scale — 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 Scales of the Business Big Picture — and there can be multiple guides per scale, covering different contexts, audiences, session lengths, industries, and applications.

Each guide provides what a facilitator needs to walk into the room ready: session outlines, scale-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 Scale is in the box. The Learning Guides deepen and structure the experience for facilitators who want to work at a specific scale with specific learning outcomes.

2. Guides by Scale
Five Scales, Multiple Guides per Scale

Guides are organized by the five scales of the Five Scales of the Business Big Picture. Each scale represents a different level of reality at which strategic thinking operates — and each surfaces phenomena that do not exist at other scales. The same board, the same core rules, 2–4 players. What changes is the facilitator's framing, the structured debrief, and the scale-specific mods.

Strategy at the Individual Scale — Guides for developing the coherent mental model that every higher scale depends on. Focus areas: individual decision-making, the hierarchical structure of needs, and the dynamics of learning.

Strategy at the Human-AI Scale — 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.

Strategy at the Product Scale — Guides for experiencing the full competitive system. Focus areas: portfolio dynamics, the two forces (commoditization and innovation), synergy formations, and competitive positioning. This is the default game level — the Rulebook supports facilitation at this scale out of the box. Learning Guides add structured session designs for classroom, workshop, and multi-session contexts.

Strategy at the Organization Scale — 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 Scale — 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 innovation as the only counterforce.

3. Who They Are For
For Anyone Who Facilitates Strategic Thinking Development

Academics 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.

Independent coaches and facilitators working with professionals, teams, or organizations who want structured strategy development experiences.

4. Current Status
In Development — but You Can Start Now

Official Strategy Learning Guides for each of the five scales are in development. The first guides will be published alongside or shortly after the main edition of OFMOS® Essential.

In the meantime, the OFMOS® Essential Rulebook provides everything needed to play and facilitate at the Product Scale — including the Business Concepts section and four Mods. Educators and facilitators 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.

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