What is “Red Teaming”

The concept of “Red Teaming” is far from new.  Used effectively by the military services to think through campaigns, red teaming acts as a devil’s advocate to review strategic processes, reveal tactical weaknesses, assess capability preparedness and effectiveness of their military readiness.


If conducted effectively, red teaming can yield a more closely synchronized planning staff; drives a more complete analysis at all phases, and ultimately delivers a better plan of operations into the hands of the tactical commander.  An effective Red Team can pinpoint key opposition (Blue Team) decision points, identify planning shortfalls, show deviations from doctrine, reveal overlooked opportunities, and extrapolate unanticipated strategic implications.

The use of red teaming practices and effective capability analysis to assess success on the battlefield is no longer just confined to military campaigns.  In today’s corporate battlefield decision makers are realising the need to reassess their approach to winning and maintaining their businesses.  An innovative, proactive strategy to business management is required where vulnerabilities of systems, practices, processes and structures need to be quickly addressed, and dealt with.

With our depth of experience across a broad range of industries we can provide professional advisory (red team) services to senior management to assist in improving the effectiveness of corporate strategy, processes or operations by assessing business needs and reviewing business functions, plans and directions.   Read more about our red teaming services.