The Mandate Table
"A 45-minute exercise that makes a room's real priorities visible — including to itself."
The Spark
"MPL is a simulation and the Heist Masterclass is a taught session — this is neither. It's built purely to make a room's real priorities visible, including to itself. I built the first deck for my own team at Kissflow, then rebuilt it from scratch for a completely different room: US Higher Ed CIOs."
How It Plays
"Everyone writes their Problem Card privately, before the room can shape it. The debrief then listens for three things — clusters, surprises, and the gap between what someone wrote down and what they ended up protecting."
You Leave With
"Three revealed cards, face-up alongside everyone else's — the room's real priorities, visible for the first time, all at once."
The Lesson
"The value is not in selecting winners. It is in forcing visible trade-offs."
RTM Higher Education CIO Congress · San Diego, March 2026
By the Numbers
The Marketing Mandate Table — internal, Kissflow. 42-card deck across six categories.
The Mandate Table — external, RTM Higher Education CIO Congress, San Diego. March 29–31, 2026. 40-card deck rebuilt across five Higher Ed categories.
The clearest proof yet that this format travels intact outside a Tamil or Indian room.
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