Eight great civilisations return as companies in today's market, building the next generation of services for one of the world's largest industries. Over one day, teams confront the big forces shaping the world right now and work out what they mean for their business: the changing world of work, and AI in the products they take to market and the processes that run behind them.
Up to eight teams compete. One wins. Each team decides what to build, where to build it, how much to use AI, what risks to take on and how much to charge, then defends its bid before a committee that pushes back. The ideas come from Porter and Kano, put to work rather than taught. The tools did not exist last year.
There are no right answers, only trade-offs with consequences, and every one of them shows up on the scoreboard.
Groups that make decisions together, from graduate cohorts to executive teams. No preparation required.
Up to eight teams, one demanding client, a live scoreboard. Runs as a conference session, a half day or a full day.
Leading through ambiguity, using AI with judgement, pricing risk, and defending a position in the room.
Every decision is priced and scored. The final pitch shows how each team actually decides.
A SHIFT127 facilitator runs the simulation. A senior leader from your organisation can play the bank the teams pitch to. Delivered directly or through enterprise partners across Australia.
The simulation does not change. What people take from it does, and that is the point of running the same day for very different groups.
A graduate cohort spends a day finding out how a business actually decides: what gets built, what it costs to run for five years, which risks are worth carrying, and what wins the work. Most of that takes years to see from inside a first role, and no part of it is visible from one team's desk. It also runs as a cohort, with something to argue about.
Leadership, risk, strategy and delivery teams are not in the room to learn that trade-offs exist. They are there to have judgement they already hold tested against rivals, with consequences priced in front of everyone, and to watch how the people around them decide when the clock is running.
What it is not: training on a particular AI tool. Most organisations already have their tools, their policies and their guardrails, and the day is about the decisions those do not make for you. It also needs a group together in a room, so it is not a self-paced module. If self-paced is what you want, The Eye is free and open to anyone.
Moments from the contest, two bids and one storm, and what leaders take away. See what a session feels like.
See it in actionThe thinking underneath the day: why people learn to lead by deciding under pressure, and why a live simulation beats a briefing.
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