Fall 2026 experiential learning workshop
The Anti-Fragile Nexus: a live multiplayer game of systemic friction and global resilience
A hands-on, cloud-based war-room simulation. Participants manage a global organization across the Triple Bottom Line and learn how local optimization can either build adaptive capacity or trigger systemic breakdown.
- Format
- Live multiplayer, cloud-based
- Duration
- 1.5 hours
- Audience
- 40 to 50 participants
- Delivery
- In-person, remote or hybrid
For program chairs
Social and environmental forces as first-class stocks.
Traditional supply chain games often treat social and environmental effects as side notes. This workshop makes them stocks and shows how they interact with financial pressure over time. Participants self-organize into cross-functional roles and confront the friction between local KPIs and whole-system resilience, so instructors can show not only what was decided, but why some policies create delayed instability.
Behavioral evidence, not just theory
Participants experience policy consequences live, creating classroom evidence for systems concepts that are often abstract in lecture-only settings.
Mixed experience levels
Designed for beginners while still producing rich analysis for advanced students, practitioners and experienced systems thinkers.
In-person, remote or hybrid
The cloud-based format supports mixed attendance and suits programs with distributed cohorts.
Relevant to modern programs
Connects system dynamics with resilience, risk, policy, sustainability and operations leadership without oversimplifying tradeoffs.
Learning objectives
- Identify reinforcing and balancing loops that accelerate recovery or collapse.
- Recognize fragility debt before short-term efficiency gains become systemic risk.
- Evaluate tradeoffs across People, Planet and Profit using stock-and-flow reasoning.
- Explain why delayed consequences create false confidence in early performance metrics.
Participant takeaways
- Confidence discussing non-linear resilience with operational and policy audiences.
- Practical intuition for lag effects, tipping points and cross-functional tradeoffs.
- A shared systems vocabulary teams can carry into strategy, operations and governance.
Instructional arc
Three phases: action, reflection, transfer.
The steady state
Teams orient to the stock-and-flow structure and see how People and Planet conditions shape productivity, regulatory friction and long-run capacity.
The stress test
Teams compete on ROI under stochastic disruptions, negotiate cross-functional tradeoffs in real time and manage competing KPIs under pressure.
The resilience autopsy
Causal trace analysis reveals why some teams recovered faster, and why non-financial buffers often determine long-run performance.
- Experience level
- Accessible to beginners, deep enough for advanced quantitative practitioners.
- What to bring
- A laptop or recent smartphone with a modern browser and reliable internet.
- Preparation
- No advance reading. Familiarity with the bullwhip effect helps but is optional.
- Companion paper
- Internalizing Fragility in Triple Bottom Line Supply Chains
This page shares instructional outcomes and program value without disclosing the full game mechanics.
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