Why a game?

Games are interactive and fun. Our games are geared at business, letting you see how your decisions impact on the organisation and the bottom line results. A properly designed game allows you to simulate what happens in real life, but in a safe environment, so that you can comfortably make mistakes and see how your decision plays out. You also get to see how other teams approach similar problems.

How does it work?

We pull 18 people together for a day. We split them up into teams of three (Preferably three people come from each organisation, allowing them to return to their organisation and implement what they have learned as a team). Each person plays a different role in the game, with one focussing on work-flow, one on marketing and one on finance. All three deal with strategy and decision making.

Each team will play the game as a company in competition with all the other teams. Should we expand? Should we buy more machinery? Should we employ more staff? How should we price our products and services? Should we lay off staff? How should we market? These and other decisions will need to be made throughout the game.
 

 
Object of the game:
1) To run the business efficiently and effectively, responding to the moves of your competitors and market changes.
2) To win. Each team will set its own goals, but we will also keep track of how teams are doing against each other. The team that makes the most profit in a sustainable way and has achieved their own goals will be declared the winner.
 
What will I learn?
Programme Outline
Open Day