Computer-Based Simulations

Market-Driven Business Strategy and Developing Strategic Leadership

Using a sophisticated, award-winning, computer-based business simulation, your managers are placed into teams and provided with the opportunity to run competing companies. They each assume responsibility for formulating strategy, designing and implementing programs, and developing and managing growing product lines. Lectures provide information to address your learning objectives and via the PC, teams have immediate access to financial and market information, decision spreadsheets, and management tools. Between playing periods, the program calculates the consequences of each team’s business decisions. The total time required to complete a simulation exercise is around 16-18 hours, making it ideal for courses lasting from three to five days.

Develop Leadership Skills And Business Acumen, Using An Award-Winning Multiplayer Business Simulation.

In this simulation, each participant plays a specific role leading simulated companies. Lectures provide information to address your learning objectives and during the simulation rounds, each player contributes to the success or failure of the business by making decisions and completing tasks as an individual — therefore, every participant is actively involved in the process. Engaging the entire team underscores the need for a sound strategy and ensures that every participant understands his or her role in the execution of that strategy. During the simulation, teams operate in a competitive marketplace. As pressures mount, participants' true behaviors emerge, providing rich opportunities for experimentation, self-reflection, self-correction, and feedback. The impact of these evaluations is enhanced by debriefs led by experienced facilitators.

Finance Simulation

An online, multiplayer simulation that allows managers to apply finance concepts in a way that closely models real-world managerial decision- making. Finance can be played either in a facilitated classroom environment or in a distributed, online environment. Each player or team heads up a virtual company; each company starts with identical assets and common business goals that are tailored to the audience's learning objectives. Finance is played in rounds representing business quarters. Players must allocate resources to product development, marketing, and strategic improvements. Companies vie for market share, and every business decision affects the entire playing field, forcing players to understand the impact of their actions on the overall market.

Board Game Simulations

The “Beer Game” Simulation

The Production / Distribution Simulation (also known as The Beer Game) creates a competitive work-process-oriented environment in which fictitious beverage companies respond in “real-time” to changing market conditions and make decisions based on supply-demand information to manage their inventory and profitability. Although based on a supply chain manufacturing operation, the Beer Game has as much to do with assumptions and decision-making processes in multi-functional organizations that drive behavior both in the marketplace and within the organization—and can often lead to the people within the same company being their own worst enemies in achieving—or not achieving performance and results. The Beer Game itself, and the extensive debrief that accompanies it, provide real and tangible hands-on learning on the importance of new-paradigm / systems thinking to solve business problems and helping people see themselves an active “part of the solution”—no matter where they sit in the organization.

Interplay™

Most business simulations measure value primarily by the worth of a company’s tangible assets. Yet, value and growth reside in the value potential of a company’s intangible assets. This untapped and often underappreciated potential is responsible for generating most corporate growth and shareholder value and accounts for well over half the market capitalization of public companies. Interplay™ provides an intense simulation experience where leaders get to participate on management teams and apply cutting edge management practices to grow their “firm” and emerge as market leaders in a competitive knowledge-intense marketplace. The key learning concepts embedded in the interplay experience include: Strategic Thinking and Acting; Competitive Advantage; Growth; Alignment; Value Creation; Intangible Assets; Knowledge Management; Collaborative Decision Making; Talent Management; Financial Acumen.

Accountability Means Everyone

AME™ uses a color-coded interactive game board to engage learners and make learning the fundamentals of finance easy. Participants learn how to read and interpret their company’s financial statements. This knowledge will boost the participant’s confidence level to make more informed decision-making based upon a true understanding of what the numbers mean to the company.

The Global Diversity Game

The Global/Diversity Game is a successful, highly interactive training tool that uses a game board (or quiz) format to explore facts about global diversity covering Demographics, Jobs, Legislation and Society as well as how to effectively manage in a multicultural workplace.

Project Management Simulations

Stays and Days and Dragons (One Day Event)

This exciting day of simulation games combines individual initiative, team cooperation, analytical insight and some fast moving dice to develop the background necessary to "game" participants' individual projects. The debrief from the day will focus on how to make gaming the project plan a productive part of the planning process. Implications for senior management will be explored.

Herding Cats

This experiential learning simulation gives you the opportunity to test and apply your understanding of project management in a risk-free yet realistic environment. Anyone who works on complex technical projects that are difficult to manage will benefit from attending Herding CatsÒ. This program will arm you with powerful, practical new ideas to apply to your current projects – immediately.