organization simulations
Our Organization Simulations are designed to mimic the real-world challenges your team faces every day. Participants will learn to adapt quickly to match skills with unexpected challenges, build understanding up, down, and across organizational levels, and apply targeted insights back to the work place. You’ll solve scenarios that replicate the pressure and constraints of the workplace, changing markets, and evolving customer demands while equipping your team with the tools necessary to navigate today’s business climate.
big picture
Used by top business programs like Yale School of Management, Stanford Graduate School of Business, Tuck School of Business (Dartmouth), Carnegie-Mellon, and more the Big Picture simulation opens participants’ perceptions and demonstrates the need for strategic and operational alignment among functional areas. Big Picture addresses collaboration across teams, the roles of leadership and vision, and the importance of adaptable thinking to meet changing customer expectations and markets.
In a few hours — four simulated quarters — the Big Picture simulation engages a group to design, paint, color and assemble a mural. The goal is to enlarge pieces of a picture into a wall-sized mural that meets customer requirements. Participants are divided into regional groups representing production work teams, a multi-level management team and exacting customers.
Ideal for groups of 10 or more
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Big Picture is available as a kit to enhance your next self-facilitated sessions. Used by many of the worlds leading organizations and business schools, we can provide you with everything you need to lead your own session — including all materials, a facilitator’s guide, and a train-the-trainer call with one of our facilitators.
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Big Picture comes in four group sizes based on the number of work teams.
6 Group: 10-20 people
9 Group: 20-30 people
12 Group: 30-45 people
16 Group: 45-60 people
Large group? No problem! We can facilitate simultaneous sessions to accommodate large group sizes.
powerball
PowerBall surfaces the challenges faced when coordinating multiple teams in an overall project and provides context to practice effective cross–functional communication and streamlining processes across teams.
PowerBall simulates an organization with multiple project teams challenged with time–to–market goals (four quarters), budgets, revenue and expected gross margins. The objective is to build a system to deliver a large quantity of PowerBalls (marbles) using PVC pipes, connectors and other materials. Each team’s subsystem is independently built to customer specifications before linking them together to form an overall system.
Ideal for groups of up to 50
liquid assets
Liquid Assets creates a fun and assumption-questioning context for examining the challenges that managers and team members face in a multi-faceted organization. The simulation facilitates a deep understanding of personal leadership, regardless of title or responsibilities. Your team will build empathy and understanding for the challenges faced at each level of an organization.
Liquid Assets simulates executives, middle managers and production teams operating as one overall organization to deliver a new product to market within an ambitious time frame. Production teams solve complex problems in acquiring and transporting raw materials while management coordinates resource acquisition, budget, and customer needs.
Ideal for up to 150 people
neptune’s crossing
Neptune’s Crossing challenges your team with producing a fleet of seaworthy boats made to customer specifications.
The group is divided into multiple project teams with various roles. Teams must communicate customer needs throughout the organization while working with limited budget, expensive resources, and a tight timeframe.
During a customer demo at the end of the fourth quarter, your team will demonstrate that the entire fleet can float at least one person across a body of water (a pool, in most cases).
Ideal for groups of any size