Duration: 40 minutes
Minefield™ toolset comes with a carrying case and single write-on wipe-off metallised game board.
The exercise:
Minefield™ toolset explores the commercial benefits of information sharing in competitive marketplaces. It examines the need for openness and trust if information sharing is to succeed and can be used to stimulate dialogue around opportunities for information sharing within project teams, divisions or departments and business networks.
In a commercial environment business knowledge is the basis upon which critical decisions are made. Businesses always try to operate in an environment where they have the best business knowledge available to them, although the cost of accessing this knowledge may mean that compromises and 'best-guess' situations necessarily develop.
Business knowledge has a cost which is a combination of the time, human-resources and expenditure involved in accessing it.
Business Knowledge Management is largely about recognising the cost of amassing this business knowledge, and ensuring that its value to the organisation exceeds this cost. Obviously we can influence this equation by either reducing the cost of accessing the information or increasing its value to the organisation.
This exercise puts the participants in a situation of trying to get a positive result at the end of balancing one such equation.
The exercise is designed to be delivered by a single facilitator for groups of 8 to 16 delegates, and focuses on the benefits of information sharing. As the exercise is played with four teams, the possibility exists for the teams to share information and therefore maximise their own individual scores.
Whether teams choose to recognise or act on this possibility will be one of the key pieces of learning during the review.
Typical activity time: 40 minutes (excluding review)
