What is the ILC pattern mentioned in the skill?

ILC stands for Innovate-Leverage-Commoditize. It is a strategic cycle where you create a new capability, build repeatable solutions, and then industrialize it at scale to create an ecosystem.

Can this skill identify strategic mistakes?

Yes, it includes an anti-patterns guide to help you avoid common errors like fighting inevitable commoditization or applying commodity-stage plays to genesis-stage innovations.

How does it help with competitive analysis?

It provides a 'Play-Position Matrix' that recommends specific attacking or defensive maneuvers based on your position relative to the market and your competitors.

What is the primary purpose of the Strategic Plays skill?

The skill helps users identify and apply specific gameplay patterns—such as ILC, Tower and Moat, or Open Approaches—based on the evolutionary stage of components on a Wardley Map.

Wardley Mapping Strategic Plays

Name: Wardley Mapping Strategic Plays
Author: melodic-software

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Productivity & Workflow

Identifies strategic options and competitive gameplay patterns based on Wardley Maps to guide business and product evolution.

The Wardley Mapping Strategic Plays skill enables Claude to perform sophisticated strategic analysis by identifying patterns such as Innovate-Leverage-Commoditize (ILC), ecosystem development, and open-source maneuvers. It provides a structured framework for evaluating competitive positions, selecting appropriate market plays based on component evolution, and applying Simon Wardley's gameplay catalog to real-world scenarios. Whether you are building defensive moats or planning an attacking market entry, this skill ensures your strategy is grounded in established situational awareness patterns.

Key Features

01ILC Pattern Identification and Execution

02Strategic Anti-pattern Detection

0312 GitHub stars

04Evolution-based Play Selection Framework

05Wardley Gameplay Catalog Integration

06Ecosystem and Two-Factor Market Analysis

Use Cases

01Designing defensive strategies to protect high-value 'Genesis' innovations

02Identifying the best moment to commoditize a component via open source

03Analyzing market inertia to predict competitor resistance to new technologies

What are Skills?·How to Install

Install with 🐟 Skill.Fish

npx skillfish add melodic-software/claude-code-plugins strategic-plays

For use in Claude.ai and ChatGPT

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