Strategy Guides

Practical, narrative walkthroughs that teach how to combine Wardley Mapping strategies in context. Each guide is a structured learning path you can apply directly to your own landscape.

📄️ AI Transformation Navigator

AI promises step-change performance, but unmanaged hype burns capital and trust. This navigator blends Experimentation, Directed Investment, and the Press Release Process with adoption plays like Education so leaders can industrialise AI responsibly.

📄️ Defensive Plays for Incumbents

Incumbents rarely lose because they lack resources; they lose because inertia blinds them to change. This guide walks established organisations through a defensive arc built on Managing Inertia, Raising Barriers to Entry, and Defensive Regulation. Work through each section with your latest Wardley Map so you can identify where you must evolve, where to obstruct rivals, and when policy becomes the battleground.

📄️ Disruptor's Handbook

Disruptors thrive by moving faster than incumbents can respond. This handbook teaches how to combine Undermining Barriers to Entry, Land Grab, and Innovate, Leverage, Commoditize (ILC) into a momentum engine. Use it when you want to reshape an industry rather than just compete within existing boundaries.

📄️ Strategy Guides

Practical, narrative walkthroughs that teach how to combine Wardley Mapping strategies in context. Each guide is a structured learning path you can apply directly to your own landscape.

📄️ Introduction to Strategic Play

Every map begins with a sense of possibility. This guide stitches together three foundational plays—First Mover, Fast Follower, and Differentiation—to help you build instincts for timing, tempo, and identity. Treat it as a short course: map, experiment, and reflect after each section so the ideas anchor in your own landscape.

📄️ Platform Ecosystem Launchpad

This guide helps product leaders assemble a coherent play that turns a differentiated product into a thriving ecosystem. It combines Platform Envelopment, Two-Factor Markets, and Co-creation with foundational doctrine so that partners and users reinforce each other's success.

📄️ Resilient Supply Network Field Guide

Supply shocks are inevitable; the organisations that thrive turn mapping insight into deliberate redundancy and leverage. This field guide weaves Buyer-Supplier Power, Creating Constraints, and Threat Acquisition into a repeatable cycle that stabilises your supply base without suffocating innovation.