The Importance of Business Acumen for Finance Professionals An important goal for Allison as CFO is to break down the silos that often develop within organizations, particularly regarding the finance department. He believes that finance professionals must understand the business … Read More
Learning should be fun. Games are fun! That’s why games are good for learning, and why Andromeda uses business simulation games to achieve the best learning results. (Best = fun, realistic, useful, rapid, thorough, memorable learning.) Now from Australia comes … Read More
The Economist magazine has just produced a wonderful playground for thought leaders, called “Open Future”. The Economist has always championed free trade, and that has led naturally to championing freedom in many forms. As they write: “One of the world’s … Read More
Written by Nikolai from Income|Outcome Developing strong business acumen and financial literacy in leadership candidates can be a challenge for any business. Identifying when those candidates are ready to be promoted to the next level is even harder. When talent … Read More
Andromeda Simulations International teaches business literacy workshop for free! We recently partnered with the Centre for Training and Innovation to run a business literacy workshop on Eleuthera. And this Income|Outcome workshop was provided pro bono, because the founders of Andromeda … Read More
Everyone admires a genius. Brilliance, especially in business, can carry a mediocre vessel across near-miraculous distances. But if a select few at the top of the business are the only ones with sturdy financial knowledge, the whole structure will topple. … Read More
In February, Singapore released a Labour Force Survey Supplement on Training: almost one third of the country’s entire workforce received structured training to improve job skills in 2013, a proportion that has been rising in recent years. It is required … Read More
In preliterate, prenumerate societies – according to dubious sources – people only count “One, two, many”. It seems a little strange, given how much people everywhere use their fingers for keeping track of larger numbers and that most people have … Read More
Recently we ran some Income/Outcome workshops for undergraduate engineering students at Aalborg University in Denmark. In the second workshop, several professors sat in with teams to observe the learning – analysing the activity, discussions and decision-making. After it was over, and … Read More
Business acumen is a subject that we normally teach within Fortune 500 companies like HP, Abbott Labs, Heinz and Ashland, or in academic programs like the Executive MBAs at Cornell-Queen’s, Kennesaw State and Villanova. However we also provide pro bono … Read More