Organizations are confronting disruptive shifts with increasing frequency: geopolitical instability, extreme natural disasters, supply-chain challenges, emerging technologies, workforce disruptions, and the prospect of an economic downturn. These trends offer considerable new opportunities for organizations that can quickly adapt to them–while harming those who remain complacent and fail to adjust. Navigating these volatile times requires leaders that are willing to practice divergent and critical thinking.
About Red Teams
To Red Team is to implement a structured process that is semi-independent from an institution and is designed to better understand that institution’s interests, intentions, and capabilities – or those of competitors or clients. And from that analysis, we help you strengthen your plans and increase your odds of success.
McChrystal Group’s proprietary Red Team solutions equip organizations with the tactical, strategic, and environmental tools, methods, and transformations required to compete and flourish in today’s complex business world… and to give you tools your competitors are not using for their decisions.
Recent Red Team Engagements
We have partnered with organizations of all industries and sizes to implement our Red Team approach to an array of strategic choices. Whether it is a decision, product, plan, policy, or strategy, you can Red Team it.
- Fortune 50 biopharma deciding how to market and price a new drug and assess probable response of second-mover competitors.
- U.S.-based technology company deciding whether to proceed with the $950M acquisition of a competitor and its associated patents.
- State government uncovering the logistical and political risks associated with messaging and rolling-out of COVID vaccines.
- Global technology company trained to establish its own internal Red Team to pressure-test its products before launch.
- Fast-growing venture capital firm making the cultural shift to a “scaling to agility” mindset to provide more immediate value for its portfolio companies.
Proven Results Across Industries
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What if they had Red Teamed?
Businesses have a range of industry-standard processes and talented professionals dedicated to identifying and managing enterprise risks. And yet, despite these procedures, resources, and regulations, we are seeing businesses continue to experience highly consequential and catastrophic disasters.
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Red Teaming Workshop
McChrystal Group pressure-tested a Fortune 10 energy company’s 2-billion dollar venture in Asia. In an intensive three-day red team workshop, company leaders uncovered major new risks and aligned on a new, more resilient strategy.
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Equipping a Global Technology Company with the Skills and Tools Needed to Identify and Evaluate Risks
McChrystal designed and implemented a Red Team Training Program within a global technology company to add rigor to product development processes, enable permanent Red Teaming capabilities, train employees on how to run their own red teams, and enhance organizational alignment around product prioritization.
Read MoreWhy Red Teams Are Imperative
Following the conclusion of a Red Team workshop, we synthesize outputs into an actionable report containing practical recommendations, tools, and tactics.
Our Professional Red Team Facilitators
Micah Zenko is a Red Team facilitator at McChrystal Group, where he develops offerings designed to enhance organizational performance.
Maryam Shariati is a Red Team facilitator at McChrystal Group, where she is responsible for designing and implementing strategy and leadership development services to drive higher performance for teams and organizations.
Red Team with Us.
McChrystal facilitates half-day to multi-day focused red team exercises for clients of all industries and sizes. These exercises can also fit within executive offsites, all hands, strategy tabletop exercises, simulations, team development events, and more.
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