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Types of Business Simulation

This explores the business simulation process and describes the types of computer business simulations.

Types of business models

This explores the main types of models used by business - for planning & budgeting, operations research and learning - their characteristics.

Ways of Using Business Simulations

This lists ways of using business simulations for training etc., briefly describes these and then provides links to explore individual uses in detail

Learning Needs Model

This explores the learning needs of managers and how business simulations address these. It is based on an analysis of some two thousand runs of business simulations on management development courses over more than twenty-five years coupled with discussions with trainers and human resource executives around the world.

Adult (andragogic) Learning Model

This explores how adult learners differ from learners in school and university. And how andragogic learning differs from pedagogic instruction and how business simulations meet these needs.

Teaching Methods & Retention

This explores how different teaching methods provide different levels of retention and show how business simulations where small teams of businss people use them are far more memorable..

The "Business Learning Ladder"

A conceptual view of learning that focuses on business success. Starting from a bottom run of knowledge acquisition, it climbs through gaining experience, developing wisdom and practicing decision-making to the top rung of business success. It is a model that, in business terms, helps define a taxonomy of learning to develop managers.

Managerial Competency Models

This explores several models of managerial competency used on assessment and development centres and how business simulations were used in the assessment process.

Kolb's Experiential Learning Cycle

This model is a foundation to the business simulation process. This explores Kolb's Experiential Learning Cycle and how it relates to the business simulation's decision-making cycle and the potential risks.

Bloom's Taxonomy

This explores a hierarchy of cognitive learning needs and its implication in terms of types of business learning and business simulation.

Cognitive Load Theory

This explores cognitive architecture and how learning is impacted by cognitive load and how business simulation design impacts cognitive load.

E-learning and Business Simulation

This explores the differences and synergies between e-learning and classroom based business simulation where the business simulation is an aid to the trainer rather than a replacement.

Team Learning Model

This explores the team learning model and how this is most appropriate to adult learning and the higher levels of learning. A model where the different knowledge and experience sets of individual learners enriches the learning process and where the need to present, promote and negotiate embeds learning.

Tutor Managed Learning Model

This explores the role of the trainer in terms of administration, facilitation and the proactive management of learning. A role that delegates the authority for learning to the learners leaving the tutor to proactively manage and lead the learning process.

A Learning Management Grid

This explores the key skills, knowledge and experience for people using business simulations for management development and business training

The Knowledge Spiral

This explores how a learning organization moves in a spiral between tacit and explicit knowledge and back again. It discusses these transformation processes in terms of people, technology and business simulations.

Deep Smarts

An article and book that discuss "How to Cultivate and Transfer Enduring Wisdom"

Harvesting Wisdom

Today and tomorrow businesses face significant business knowledge and wisdom loss as baby boomers retire and leave. Here we explore this issue suggesting that business simulations are an effective and efficient way to capture and to transfer baby boomer wisdom to the next generations of business people.

Systems Dynamics Process Model

This explores the business simulation learning process in terms of a feedback model comprising three dynamics - workload, cognition & affection

Tutor Support System

This explores the role of the business simulation software to support the trainer and the training process in terms of administration, facilitation and learning management support.

Corporate Cartooning Paradigm

This explores the verisimilitude of the simulation model in terms of two paradigms - the Hunter-Gatherer (positivist) paradigm and the Corporate Cartooning (constructionist) paradigm.

The Rock Pool Method™

This explores how our design methodology. And through this meets learning needs in a lean and agile manner. A methodology that won the best paper award at the 2005 ABSEL Conference.

Lean Learning

This explores one of our key design principles - leanness,

Categories of Learning Investment

Investment in learning like investment in any other asset may be operational, tactical or strategic. Categories that differ in terms of frequency of asset use, importance of investment, impact of the investment, the time over which the investment has impact (life) and the ease of measurement of the impact.