AI · transformation · education
Current games and simulations sit alongside national qualification design, education transformation and practical capability building. The connection is consistent: make complex change understandable and usable.
The thread
It combines organisational systems, evidence, learning design and working technology. A national qualification, a trust-wide device strategy and a decision simulation are different forms—but each turns a complicated system into something people can understand, practise and use.
Current practice
Eight experiences use narrative, competition, practical prompts and causal systems to expose strategic trade-offs and move teams towards useful action.
How do you lead a city without allowing one success to conceal another system’s collapse?
Teams found competing cities and balance prosperity, stability, capability and public trust through linked civic decisions.
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Can AI help a team distinguish evidence from a confident story?
Teams interrogate conflicting dossiers, assemble limited specialists and commit a coherent operation against deterministic hidden rules.
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What does a powerful intelligence learn from the way its creator behaves?
Players build competing LANTERN systems, intervene in rivals and choose the machine’s permanent optimisation objective.
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What happens when civilisation relies on a powerful source it does not fully control?
Mythic cities move through ten eras, create Great Works and use an AI-like Codex while competing for power.
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A municipal exercise balancing service continuity, operational resilience, capability and public trust through escalating incidents.
Read the case studyHow could insurance act continuously, personally and sometimes invisibly in 2050?
A room-scale journey connecting personal and business events, live protection, AI action, pricing and human judgement.
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Can a profitable insurer survive the hidden exposures created by its own strategy?
Eight board decisions face compound climate, social and governance pressure while visible measures appear to reward short-term choices.
Read the case studyWhat question would help this team think differently and leave with a useful next move?
Ten practical decks help managers facilitate conversations about strategy, meetings, delivery, AI, design thinking and automation.
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National qualification design, trust-wide technology strategy and higher-education AI capability demonstrate how learning systems and organisational change can be delivered at scale.
Digital strategy · education
Trust-wide device programmes designed around teaching practice, accessibility and site readiness—not a technology rollout imposed uniformly. The published case study reported a 370% improvement where individual devices were combined with Technology-Enhanced Active Learning.
Pearson · national qualification design
Major authorship of the programme of study under Ofqual rules, creation of the complete Core and Occupational Specialist teaching materials, and national in-person and online educator training.
Programme design · delivery packs · topic guides · teacher development
Pearson · qualification and learning design
Subject-matter leadership from the qualification’s inception in 2018 to 2024, including three Ofqual updates, complete learning resources and extensive teacher development across the UK.
Six years of subject leadership · national trainer · complete resource suite
Higher education · AI capability
Practical modules, resources and live sessions for academic and professional staff—designed to demystify AI, build usable fluency and connect emerging tools to real teaching and administrative work.
Course architecture · online modules · staff sessions · practical toolsThe current simulations extend the same practice: give people enough structure to act, make the consequences visible, then use reflection to convert an experience into organisational capability.