Gaming through #scenarios, incorporating a little #redteaming, is a great way to test the assumptions underpinning your plans before exposing them to the real world.

How confident are you that your planning assumptions will hold up when it matters?

At Evocatus, we rarely work alone. We have plenty of skills and experience designing and delivering exercises and wargames, but we have also run enough events to understand the importance of getting the details right, and the value of real subject matter experts to keep our scenarios credible.

Two Springadors (half lab, half Springer Spaniel) sat politely at the top of the stairs at Evocatus HQ.

Socks and Spice take their responsibilities as the Greeting Team for Evocatus Hospitality very seriously.

They know that they are responsible for making sure that our regulars keep coming back, whether they are the daily lunchtime walkers or just occasional visitors passing through.

The orange dice hanging in the cockpit of the Evocatus Hospitality tuk-tuk aren't just there as an excuse for more branding.

They are there a reminder of how we approach our work.

It's easy to reject dice and games as childish and unprofessional, but we find the reverse to be true.

Our #coffee tuk, fuelling #innovation one cup at a time!

Making exercises better, starting with understanding what good looks like

Exciting, as a veteran owned business, to be included in the #ukinclusivesourcingsummit here in London.Two glorious days of I immersion in genuine diversity!

Never off duty…spotted this on a book shelf in a boutique hotel in Andalusia…

A big step up for a little company!

We are delighted to have hear today that we have been recognised by Defence Relationship Management (DRM) with a Silver Award, building on last year's Bronze.

#SilverERS25 #ERS25 #SupportThoseWhoServe #DefenceSupport

A cracking day at Evocatus HQ talking AI in exercise design and delivery. This is what #innovation looked like today…

Always a good day when the print shop drops off a new map!

#wargaming #scenariobuilding #hexmap #roleplaying #decisionmaking #crisisgame #teambuilding

A morning channeling my inner Slartibartfast ahead of an exercise next week. Can’t help thinking this is something I ought to be asking AI to do much of the work for…

Military audience…but evidence from either domain would be relevant…

“Is there any empirical evidence that playing games drives real-world performance rather than just making people and teams better at playing the game?”

#wargaming #psychology #humanfactors #mentalmodels
#criticalthinking

A very reasonable challenge from an audience member today as I advocated for wargaming as a way to improve adversarial decision making speed and performance, to which I can’t put my finger on a concrete answer…

And finally, the most popular members of the team are the Chief Greeter and Head of Security, who the humans know are the real reason most people come to see us.

And when the Director of Hospitality isn’t making coffee, she will usually be found court-mounting medals for service personnel, first responders and veterans from our local community.

Then we were asked about creating some media content to bring a fictional geopolitical scenario to life to support an exercise, so we pulled in some trusted experts from both sides of the lens and that’s where Evocatus Media started…

And because we need to get our coffee out of its usual space to support events and conferences on the park, we got a coffee machine with 3 wheels and an engine…

After a while, we decided that #Dorset Innovation Park, where we are based, needed access to decent coffee (and ice cream, as it turns out).

So Evocatus Hospitality became a thing…

We’re still new here, so we’d like to introduce ourselves.

A veteran-owned little business based in South Dorset, we started life with a sharp focus on #wargaming for defence and corporate customers.

Why Gamers Will Win the Next War - Modern War Institute A storm is brewing. Thousands of gamers are working to upend traditional models of training, education, and analysis in government and defense. This grassroots movement has developed across several co...

Playing games together against opponents who want to beat you builds shared mental models and improves and accelerates decision making. Not policies, process or PowerPoint slides…

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