Concept Why
management games can do more
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Didactically, corporate logistics management games are an extremely
successful method to vividly teach the abstract cause and effect
relationships of logistics. So that the model is accepted, our
simulations are real! This means computers are generally not used in
the management game. Rather, seminar participants manually recreate
the interplay of all the company’s processes.
Although complete factory models are simulated, the game’s
complexity is manageable since the process mapping is based on a few
basic elements.
Yet the overall interrelationship remains unmanageable from the
(function-oriented) worms-eye view. Only the (process-oriented)
birds-eye view imparted in the seminar manages to grasp the company
as a whole and recognize interrelationships.
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Manual Play
Using management games to "grasp" the world ought to be taken
literally. Our management games deliberately do without
computer-supported simulation models, which can map a company
perfectly. Too perfectly, because
while incomprehensible algorithms in a
black box impart dynamic and
complexity, they do not however impart knowledge about
cause and effect.
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Modularity
Management
games are composed of a few basic elements. A clever setup makes it
possible to map almost every conceivable process chain. Nevertheless
the complexity to be managed remains low. A task is limited to a few
steps. As a result, the bird’s eye-view unfamiliar
to the participant can be transferred to processes in the
company.
Mapping real processes is an important acceptance criterion. Only
when the management game participants recognize "their" processes,
are they willing to adapt the insights acquired in the management
game to a real process chain. Hence we are constantly endeavoring to
adapt our management games to your needs.
What is more, the modularity principle provides tremendous
flexibility to change processes in the management game underway.
Thus not only the process chain’s control but also its structure are
continuously optimized in the course of
the management game.
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Project Management
Management games are projects of change with a time lapse function.
Project alternatives, never realized in reality since they require
years of implementation and have uncertain success, can be tested in
the management game without risk and within a few hours.
At the same time, you also put your project team to the test. Real
conflict situations have to be resolved, alternatives discussed,
solutions implemented in concert. Who is the lone wolf, who is the
team leader and who is the worker? Everyone reveals their strengths
and weaknesses in a management game.
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Methodology Orientation
Despite all modularity: Every management game serves a particular
purpose, usually very concrete logistic principles, which have to be
implemented in the company. Hence we offer you management games very
specifically tailored to your problems. Moderation is always taken
over by a Fraunhofer IFF associate who has a rich wealth of
experience from industry projects where
the
methods being taught were
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