Essential Collaborations Learning Ecosystem Prototype

Beer Industry Natural Disaster Simulation

A leadership decision game for a major flooding event affecting warehouse and distribution facilities. Choose priorities before, during, and after the event, then convert the results into a responsibility-change plan.

Begin simulation Build responsibility changes

Before

Leadership knows flooding is possible and must decide what gets protected before normal operations become unsafe.

During

Water reaches the docks and yard; decisions must balance life safety, account communication, and limited service.

After

Recovery pressure rises, but restart choices must protect employees, product integrity, documentation, and trust.

Major Flooding · Stage 1 of 3 · 36–18 hours before expected crest

Before Event Priorities

PRIORITIZE

Regional emergency management projects a credible major flood risk near the warehouse, fleet yard, fuel island, and primary outbound route. Accounts are ordering normally and suppliers are asking whether inbound loads should continue.

What should management make the dominant priority before water reaches the facility?

Intended and unintended results

Decision review

StagePriorityIntended ResultUnintended Result

Choose the first priority decision to begin the review log.

Facilitator comparison view

Team comparison for Major Flooding

Save each completed group result, then compare how teams handled the same scenario. The comparison emphasizes decision patterns and tradeoffs rather than simply ranking teams.

Complete a simulation and save a team result to begin comparing groups for this scenario.

Essential Collaborations · Beer Disaster Lab

Team Comparison Worksheet

Major Flooding

Debrief date__________________

Facilitator use note: Use this handout to compare decision logic, tradeoffs, and responsibility commitments. The goal is not simply to rank teams; it is to understand why different priority patterns produced different intended and unintended consequences.

Save at least one completed team result to populate this printable worksheet.

Discussion notes

1. ________________________________________________________________________________________________

2. ________________________________________________________________________________________________

3. ________________________________________________________________________________________________

Responsibility-change commitments

1. Owner: ____________________ Action: __________________________________________________________

2. Owner: ____________________ Action: __________________________________________________________

3. Owner: ____________________ Action: __________________________________________________________

After-action workshop

Responsibility-change builder

Once the score is reviewed, players work together to convert lessons into assigned changes. Edit the roles, triggers, first steps, and success measures so the action plan reflects your organization and the selected scenario.

Priority actionResponsible roleTriggerFirst 72-hour stepSuccess measure