New Case Studies published on Bioteams Business Games

December 13, 2012 | article by Ken Thompson in Business Simulation (14)

ISEE Systems, a leading developer of business simulation tools, have published reviews of two of the new Bioteams online/offline collaboration games developed using the ithink platform. These team games enable companies to share their own best practice (learn from others) in a way that really sticks and to put staff into difficult but realistic decision-making situations where if they make a mistake it does not cost the business!

Business Simulation Games

The first game is a "company war game" where the HR teams become the senior executive team in their own business. Over 1-2 days they run their business for 3 years and as well as making all the key operational and strategic decisions also have to deal with real issues such as competitor price changes, supplier problems and misleading media stories!

The second game is a Change Management game where company teams make interventions to gain the commitment of senior executives in a company to an important new project. This game blends System Dynamics and Agent-Based Modeling techniques to represent the impact of each executive on each other based on their seniority, reputation and social networks.

Read the full article Playing to Learn: Bioteams Design uses iThink® to create games that teach important business lessons

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About Ken Thompson

Ken Thompson delivers keynote conference speeches, workshop facilitation and in-house consultancy in four key business areas:

Creating High Performing Teams in enterprises including Virtual and Mobile Teams (based on the Bioteams Book)
Establishing effective Collaborative Business Networks enabling companies to co-operate effectively in areas such as sales and product development (based on the book - The Networked Enterprise)
How to use the latest social media technologies including blogging and online communities to promote enterprises, brand, organisation or event
Development of graphical on-line interactive Business Games, Dashboards and What-if Simulators for organisations to support Performance Improvement, Strategy Development and Executive Team Development.

Tags: analytics, dashboards, games, gamification, simulators, visualization, what-if

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Bioteams Books Reviews

Leadership and Self-Deception

June 2, 2008 | article by Ken Thompson in Book Reviews (37)

A few months ago I read the book "Leadership and Self-Deception". Then I became a friend of the Arbinger Institute, went through some training with them in London and may be involved with them in the future. So I suppose the book inspired me – here’s why! Guest book review by Mario Gastaldi.

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