Business

The Influence Game — Power, Politics & Organizational Dynamics

Compete as VPs in a fictional C-suite vying for influence, coalition power, and strategic advantage during a high-stakes corporate transformation initiative.

3 rounds MBA & Masters English, Español

Preview

What participants learn

After the session, participants will be able to:

  • Diagnose a dual-scoreboard situation by separating the personal and organizational stakes in each decision and testing whether they actually conflict rather than assuming they do
  • Construct a coalition strategy that trades across linked agenda items, capital, pay and an appointment, from a map of each stakeholder's interests
  • Evaluate open, selective, guarded and misleading information tactics for effectiveness in a single game and durability in a repeated one, and defend an ethical line
  • Apply political capital in calibrated doses across a sequence of decisions and recognize the point at which pressure becomes overreach
  • Critique an incentive and measurement system, the company's bonus design and the simulation's own score, for the behavior it rewards

Who it is for

An intermediate simulation for participants who already know the core concepts of the subject, designed for master's and MBA programmes.

How a session runs

  1. The instructor creates a session from the Eureka dashboard and invites the participants.
  2. Participants play 3 rounds. In each one they submit their decisions and the simulation calculates the results.
  3. The simulation can be run in English, Español.
  4. The instructor follows each participant's progress and results from the dashboard, and uses the class results for the debrief.

Decisions participants make

The decisions participants make during the simulation:

  • Industrial (Manufacturing) %
  • Logistics (Supply Chain) %
  • Digital (SaaS & IoT) %
  • Compensation Model
  • CDO Candidate
  • Influence Spend (Political Capital: 0–100)
  • Coalition Building Effort (Hours: 0–20)
  • Information Sharing Strategy

What participants track

What participants follow on screen as the rounds go by:

  • The Influence Game

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