Capability Blocks Game
A Hands-On Exercise for Strategic Thinking and Business Design
Overview
The Capability Blocks Game is an interactive, team-based learning experience designed to help participants understand, design, and align organizational capabilities in a tangible and engaging way. Instead of discussing strategy as abstract concepts, participants work with physical capability “blocks” that represent core elements of the organization.
The game enables teams to see how capabilities connect, support value creation, and influence overall organizational performance—bridging the gap between strategy and execution.
What the Experience Delivers
Participants gain a clearer, shared understanding of how their organization actually works beneath the surface. The game helps teams identify critical capabilities, reveal misalignments, and explore opportunities to strengthen strategic focus.
By making strategy visible and interactive, participants move from theoretical discussion to collective insight and informed decision-making.
How the Game Works
Each block represents a core business capability such as marketing, operations, customer experience, innovation, or technology. Teams collaborate to build, test, and reconfigure capability structures, exploring how different configurations support or limit strategic goals.
Through guided facilitation, teams address essential strategic questions around priority, investment, gaps, and overlaps.
Who It’s For
This workshop is ideal for leadership teams, strategy and transformation teams, business unit leaders, and organizations undergoing change, growth, or business model redesign.
Learning Approach
Learning is delivered through hands-on gameplay, collaborative problem-solving, facilitated reflection, and strategic dialogue. The experience encourages systems thinking, experimentation, and shared ownership of outcomes.
Organizational Value
Organizations benefit from stronger strategic alignment, clearer capability priorities, improved cross-functional understanding, and more effective translation of strategy into execution.
