Workshops and Simulations

Practical workshops and simulations that build delivery capability, shift mindsets, and help you work smarter, faster, and with greater impact.

Product Strategy

Business Model & Value Proposition Workshops

the business model canvasClarify your value. Strengthen your strategy. Align your team.

Our Business Model Canvas and Value Proposition Canvas workshop is designed to help you sharpen their strategic thinking, clarify their customer value, and align internal stakeholders around a shared business model.

This practical, outcome-driven session guides your team through two structured frameworks:

Business Model Canvas

We help you map out the core components of your business model: customers, channels, value propositions, key activities, resources, partnerships, cost structures and revenue streams. This creates a clear, visual snapshot of how your organisation creates, delivers, and captures value.

Value Proposition Canvas

We help you dive deeper into your most important customer segments to explore their jobs to be done, pains, and gains. From there, we refine your product or service offering to align more closely with what truly matters to them, ensuring relevance, differentiation, and impact.

What You’ll Gain

  • A shared understanding across teams on strategic direction and customer needs.
  • A stronger articulation of your value proposition is critical for business development, stakeholder engagement, and securing funding bids.
  • More transparent decision-making around product design, partnership priorities, and go-to-market plans.
  • Ready-to-use outputs: We provide editable canvases and a prioritised summary of strategic opportunities identified during the session.

Who It’s For

Ideal for innovation teams, business unit leaders, or cross-functional working groups in defence, aerospace, security, and adjacent sectors. Whether you’re exploring new offerings or strengthening existing ones, this workshop helps focus your efforts where they matter most.

Delivery Options: Half-day or full-day format. Available on-site or remotely.

Outcome: Clarity, alignment, and a practical foundation for product and service innovation.

Product Development

Product Development Flow workshop

Deliver faster. Manage uncertainty. Build what matters.

Our Product Development Flow workshop equips teams with the mindset, methods and principles to reduce delay, improve flow, and make better product decisions in complex, high-stakes environments.

Designed for organisations operating in the defence and security sectors, this session applies proven lean and flow-based thinking to the realities of modern product development, where uncertainty is high, learning is continuous, and speed matters.

What We Cover

We introduce and apply key concepts that shape how work flows through a product development system:

  • Understanding variability and risk: Learn why variability is unavoidable—and how to respond constructively.
  • Making economic decisions: Prioritise based on cost of delay, capacity, and long-term value, not just effort.
  • Batch size and queues: Explore how smaller batches and reduced queues accelerate delivery and learning.
  • Flow efficiency vs. resource efficiency: Shift the focus from busy people to valuable outcomes.
  • Managing feedback loops: Build systems that learn fast and adapt early.
  • Cadence, commitment, and synchronisation: Discover practical tools for structuring work without overcommitting.

What You’ll Gain

  • Improved decision-making across delivery teams and leadership, anchored in economic thinking.
  • Faster, more predictable delivery by reducing delays, blockers, and rework.
  • Greater agility in adapting to new information, shifting priorities, or changing requirements.
  • A systems-level view of your development flow, with clear levers for improvement.
  • Practical tools to apply immediately, whether you’re building digital services, hardware systems, or integrated solutions.

Who It’s For

Ideal for delivery leads, product managers, engineers, and transformation teams seeking to improve how work flows from concept to capability. Particularly valuable for MOD delivery organisations, defence primes, and dual-use tech SMEs navigating complex delivery environments.

Delivery Options: Available as a standalone one-day workshop or integrated into a broader engagement.

Outcome: A shared foundation in lean product development thinking, designed to accelerate value delivery and reduce costly delay.

Team Development

Team Development Workshops

Sharpen skills. Strengthen teams. Accelerate delivery.

These focused, hands-on workshops are designed to build core competencies in modern delivery teams—particularly in environments where clarity, collaboration and pace are essential. Whether delivered remotely or in person, each session offers a practical blend of expert facilitation, tailored content, and ready-to-use outputs.

Suitable for cross-functional teams in the public and private sector, including MOD delivery units, defence primes, and agile SMEs.

User Story Mapping.

Visualise work. Align effort. Focus on outcomes. Help teams see the bigger picture behind their backlog. This session introduces story mapping to collaboratively explore user journeys, clarify priorities, and slice work in a way that delivers value sooner. Especially valuable ahead of MVP planning or during early-stage product discovery.

Team Chartering

Define purpose. Build trust. Set clear expectations. In this session, teams co-create their ways of working, shared values, communication norms and delivery principles. Establishes psychological safety, promotes accountability, and supports smoother onboarding and cross-team collaboration. Ideal for new teams or those entering a critical phase of delivery.

Elephant Carpaccio

Practice thin slicing. Deliver small. Learn fast. A high-energy, hands-on exercise that helps teams understand the power of incremental delivery. Through a time-boxed challenge, participants practice breaking big ideas into small, testable slices—boosting confidence in iterative delivery and accelerating team learning.

Radical Candor

Build honest relationships. Strengthen feedback culture. This workshop introduces the Radical Candor framework in a way that suits the context of defence and public sector teams. Participants learn how to give feedback that challenges directly while caring personally—leading to healthier team dynamics and better decision-making.

Refinement

Turn vague ideas into delivery-ready work. Refinement is where delivery momentum is won or lost. This session introduces practical techniques to turn large, ambiguous problems into clear, deliverable slices. Focuses on improving quality of conversation, shared understanding, and reducing rework.

Serious Games for Better Thinking

Engage teams. Unlock creativity. Solve complex problems. Explore a curated set of serious games used to improve retrospectives, prioritisation, decision-making, and systems thinking. These tools help teams see challenges from new angles, build alignment, and have more productive conversations—especially in complex, uncertain environments.

Format & Delivery

  • Duration: 2 hours to half a day

  • Delivery: Available online or on-site

  • Audience: Delivery teams, transformation groups, or mixed-role squads working in fast-paced, outcomes-focused settings

Outcome: A smarter, more cohesive team—equipped with practical tools, shared language, and greater delivery confidence.

Simulations and Serious Games

Learn by doing. Shift mindsets. Embed new ways of working.

These immersive sessions use experiential learning to help teams internalise modern delivery principles, challenge assumptions, and create lasting behavioural change. Ideal for delivery teams, product leaders, and transformation champions in defence and adjacent sectors.

All simulations can be run online or in person, and are facilitated by experienced coaches who ensure the learning is directly relevant to your context.

Playing Lean

Learn Lean Startup by experiencing it. Playing Lean is a fast-paced board game that simulates the journey of a startup navigating uncertainty. Teams compete to build, test, and launch products in a dynamic market, learning how to apply Lean Startup principles such as validated learning, iterative delivery, and pivoting based on evidence.

  • Ideal for product teams, innovation cells, or leadership groups exploring agile funding or experimental approaches

  • Sparks valuable discussion around risk, learning velocity, and organisational blockers to agility

Key Outcomes:

  • Deep understanding of Lean Startup concepts

  • Appreciation of the value of fast feedback and customer validation

  • Shared language for product experimentation and innovation

Okaloa Flowlab

Experience the flow of work, and what gets in the way. Okaloa Flowlab is a set of flow-based simulations that help teams understand how work moves (or doesn’t) through their system. Through experiential rounds, participants feel the impact of variability, handoffs, work in progress, and systemic delay, building intuition for flow efficiency and better decision-making.

  • Particularly relevant to defence delivery teams dealing with complex coordination, high uncertainty, and siloed functions

  • Can be tailored to focus on upstream discovery, delivery, or end-to-end product flow

Key Outcomes:

  • Systems-level understanding of flow and delay

  • Improved dialogue around dependencies and blockers

  • Greater alignment on delivery policies and improvement priorities

LEGO® Serious Play®

Think with your hands. Align through storytelling. LEGO Serious Play is a facilitated method for unlocking insight, building shared understanding, and exploring complex issues through metaphor and storytelling. Participants build LEGO models to express ideas, challenges, or visions, allowing deeper, more inclusive conversations than typical meetings allow.

  • Ideal for team retrospectives, vision setting, stakeholder alignment or cultural exploration

  • Proven to unlock creativity and enable voices that are often underrepresented in group dialogue

Key Outcomes:

  • Deeper engagement and richer conversation

  • Stronger alignment around abstract or emotionally charged topics

  • A more human-centred way of tackling strategic and organisational challenges

Format & Delivery

  • Duration: Half-day to full-day

  • Delivery: Online or on-site (dependent on simulation type)

  • Audience: Delivery teams, leadership groups, or transformation sponsors seeking mindset shift and practical insight

Outcome:
Accelerated learning, better teamwork, and a more intuitive grasp of the principles behind effective delivery.

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