Introduction to Fighting Edge

Fighting Edge
Introducing...
www.fighting-edge.com

Introduction
• WE ARE a full-service, strategic and operational-level
business consultancy with a background in military
operations, defence intelligence and business operational
delivery, training and strategic development.
• OUR MISSION is to enhance our clients’ competitiveness
through enhancing their strategic planning, improving their
operational delivery and reducing their vulnerability to the
unexpected.
• WE DO THIS through giving our clients an impressive arsenal of cutting-edge tools
that will enable them to survive, prosper and win in today’s and tomorrow's
corporate battlefield.
• FUNDAMENTAL to everything we do and teach is good decision-making; because
without good decision-making, everything you do comes down to luck: good or bad!

Our Ethos
• WE ARE all veterans of a great many military, commercial
and government campaigns.
• WE HAVE led multi-disciplined groups of all sizes and abilities
in a range of difficult, fast-moving and challenging
environments where there are no prizes for being second
best.
• WE UNDERSTAND that business is by nature both adversarial yet cooperative and
that the best strategic and planning processes must be attuned to that environment.
Most importantly, we believe that a business consultancy should deliver lasting results
through unique products and proven processes, rather than the usual list of
recommendations based on whatever current management theories hold sway.

Our Approach
• Good decision-making, whether on the battlefield or at 30,000’ in a fighter cockpit is
vital not only for success, but also for survival!
– The same applies in the boardroom, the project team or the office
• Good decision-making requires good Situational Awareness:
– An awareness and understanding of what is happening,
and knowing what to do about it…
• We believe in giving businesses the tools and techniques to enhance
their situational awareness, improve their decision-making, develop
their critical thinking and reduce or avoid costly mistakes
– We use the same trusted techniques that have been refined and used by the
defence and intelligence communities over the past 10 years, carefully adapted for
the business environment

Our Product
TRAINING
DECISION-MAKING
PROBLEM-
SOLVING
RED TEAMING
RESILIENCE
PLANNING
WORKSHOPS
STRATEGIC
ANALYSIS
STRATEGIC
PLANNING
OPERATIONAL
DELIVERY
RISK REDUCTION
CORPORATE
WARGAMING
SUPPORT
COACHING
MENTORING
Tailored to your
needs using
unique tools &
processes
Tailored to your
needs using
unique tools &
processes
Courses to build
& develop world-
beating teams
Courses to build
& develop world-
beating teams
One-to-one or
group orientated
One-to-one or
group orientated

Workshops
STRATEGIC ANALYSIS
•We aim to support and refine your strategic goals through rigorous, cutting-edge
analysis that enhances your situational awareness and overall understanding.
•We achieve this with a full suite of structured analytical techniques to cut through
the noise and banish dangerous assertions and flawed assumptions that can
adversely affect your strategic aims.
STRATEGIC PLANNING
•We aim to improve your knowledge-based decision-making through thorough
analysis, creative-thinking and innovative testing using our ACT structure.
•We demonstrate and use the key planning principles and processes that have
been developed and refined by the military and intelligence communities over
many years. We have adapted and modified them to suit the needs of modern-day
businesses and organisations.

Workshops
OPERATIONAL DELIVERY
•We aim to help you achieve operational excellence across your organisation
through the demonstration and application of our High, Fast Flyer principles.
•We achieve this through working with you to show you how the principles
employed by a modern fighter squadron can be adapted and used by any medium-
to-large business to give it a competitive edge over its rivals. Discover how an
organisation that undergoes a 75-80% staff turnover every 3-4 years not only
functions but excels.
RISK REDUCTION
•We aim to help you minimize the risk inherent in any endeavor, plan or project
through the use of our state of the art processes and techniques gleaned from
years of experience in high-risk, challenging environments.
•We demonstrate and use a range of tools and techniques designed to
complement and expand upon any risk analysis and reduction toolsets that you
already have in place.

Workshops
CORPORATE WARGAMING
•We all know that any strategy is worthless unless it is properly planned and
correctly executed, but how often is the overall package tested before
implementation? In a military context, the answer is always, and we believe this
should be true for any major, critical business endeavor. To that end, we provide a
tailor-made Corporate Wargaming service for our clients to stress-test their
proposed strategies, concepts and plans.
•Our Corporate Wargames are disciplined, action-reaction role-playing workshops
that pit your actual decision-makers and managers (the Blue Team) against role-
playing competitive adversaries (the Red Team).
•Our methodology provides an outstanding confidence-building risk mitigation
exercise, that provides live leadership and organisational learning opportunities
for all.
•Each workshop is a unique event that is extremely flexible in terms of time, effort
and participation. While we recommend your Red Team has undertaken one of
our Red Team training courses, if they haven’t, we will supplement the team with
some of our mentors to provide guidance and ensure that the interaction is
realistic and learning-based.
•Our White Team designs and facilitates the workshop in concert with the client
sponsor, ensuring realism, fair play and value-added output.

Training
DECISION-MAKING
•Decision-making is fundamental to all that we do, yet this core skill is often
overlooked or glossed over. We give your managers and execs the mindset and
the tools to make better, more informed decisions.
•Our ACE programme takes your staff through the fundamentals and psychology
of decision-making, before giving them the practical tools and understanding
required to deal with complexity and avoid or mitigate the biases that regularly
undermine good decision-making in the workplace.
PROBLEM-SOLVING
•Problem-solving is a required skill at every level in the workplace. Primarily aimed
at planners and project managers, this course is nonetheless equally useful for any
manager and exec who wishes to improve their problem-solving skills.
•We teach the key problem-solving principles and processes that have been
developed and refined by the military and intelligence communities over many
years, but adapted and modified to suit the needs of modern-day businesses and
organisations.

Training
RED TEAMING
•In today’s uncertain world, every day brings new competitors, new challenges
and new opportunities. The best companies know change is the only true
constant, so they constantly question their priorities and seek out ways to do what
they do better. But, if you really want to stress-test your strategies and plans, you
need another set of eyes on them.
•A Red Team provides that. It is a group separate from your regular planning staff
that provides a truly independent review, and can be permanent or ad-hoc,
depending on your needs.
•We offer four courses that teach a wide range of structured, alternative analysis
tools, creative thinking processes and constructive challenge techniques as used
by the world’s best military and intelligence agencies, but carefully adapted to the
needs of the modern business world.
•The Cutting Edge course provides the bedrock for a solid, in-house Red Team, the
Razor’s Edge takes things to the next, more advanced level, while the Leading Edge
course trains your leaders how to run a Red Team. Finally, the Director’s Cut gives
C-level execs a vital insight into Red Teaming principles.
•Red Teaming is not a better planning process; it is a process that makes your
plans better.

Training
RESILIENCE PLANNING
•You almost certainly have a range of risk management processes already at your
disposal. This training is designed not just for planners but also any exec or
manager with operational or strategic responsibilities.
•Our Check 6 course is designed to give your planning staff a supplementary
toolkit that takes them that extra mile, utilizing some surprisingly simple yet
remarkably effective resilience planning and risk reduction techniques allied to a
few of our cutting-edge mitigation processes.

Coaching and Mentoring
FOLLOW-ON SUPPORT
•We provide varying degrees of follow-on support for each of our training courses
in the form of coaching or mentoring.
•Each package is tailored to the needs of the client, with options for one-to-one or
group support.
•Bespoke post-workshop packages are also available to ensure that you continue
to benefit and prosper from our expertise.

Your Gain
• In today’s business environment the need for constant innovation and transformation is vital, meaning
that selecting and delivering successful transformation programmes is key. However, many businesses
and organisations tend to suffer as a result of poor programme, project or operational delivery caused by
failing to make the best decisions with the data available.
• An average of 44% of all programmes fail to deliver:
– On time
– On budget
– On quality
• An average of 15% fail completely*
This invariably impacts adversely on reputation and profitability
Fighting Edge provides you with the means to be in the golden 41% that delivers trust and
value, consistently and confidently
*IBM Global Study

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