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Where and why using Business Simulations
The mainly usage of management business simulations can currently be found at universities and the large scale industry. The didactical profit and the efficiency of this instrument is known for a long time. For smaller companies or service companies, the instrument of business simulations is mostly unknown. One of the reasons for this may be, that the decision makers of today had made their experiences with business simulations during their studies some years ago. And these people, who made these experience, knows the profit of using it. AS a result of this, most of the participants of business management congresses are university professors and the representatives of most of the large scale industry. The participant list is like the "who is who" of the big players.

Bit if you reflect the years after 1999, it seems to start a turnover. While we had only one congress a year for business simulations for the last 15 years before, we had a lot of trade fairs and events after 1999 in Europe like in Nuerenberg, Zurich, Cologne, Dortmund or Karlsruhe, followed by Hannover, St. Gallen and last but nut least Berlin.

Business simulations were and are the object of a lot of scientific workouts. The results can be summarized in the following statements:


Bullet Which targets are pursued by using a management simulation:
  • train and practise economic knowledge
  • usage of theoretical knowledge in a realistic situation
  • train to recognize economic dependencies, train interlinked (holistic) thought
  • train to make entrepreneurial decisions, under time pressure or incomplete information
  • advance of team working

Summarized you can say:
technical, methodical and social competences should be improved.


Bullet Why can you reach this targets more efficient and quicker with the active learning method of a business management simulation?
  • The "fun to play" is the motivation for acting
  • Identification with the role within the team raises the engagement
  • "Learning by doing"
  • The results of the decisions can be seen at once
  • Mistakes will not be penalized, they are didactical welcomed
  • The ambition to "win" is the motivation to want to understand the background.
The educational and learning research has proclaimed, that you remember
10 % from that, what you only read,
20 % from that, what you only hear,
30 % from that, what you observe,
50 % from that, what you hear and see,
70 % from that, what you say yourself,
90 % from that, what you do yourself
Business management simulations are often described as "experience orientated" learning methods

Bullet Business simulations for personnel election and assessment (potential analysis)
  • Assessment of decisions competence and the competence to solve problems
  • Assessment of team behaviour, the ability to work within a team, ability of enforcement
  • Assessment of the behaviour and handling of wrong decisions or different opinions, self presentation
  • The possibility of comparison by objective parameters

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