Business Acumen Is the Glue That Holds Your Company Together

Business Acumen is the glue that holds your company together. It impacts more than financial results: it clarifies roles, it improves speed and accuracy of communication, it develops respect and morale. It is essential to financial success and for reaching … Read More »

Finding Silver Linings in Global Catastrophes

A client recently participated in a business simulation that included a global pandemic scenario, and the ideas generated were innovative and surprising. Read More »

Learning Styles and Visualization

People have different learning styles. Not everyone thinks visually, although most people do. This is important for game developers like Andromeda Simulations to remember, because we specialize in the visual display of information. But we also have to pay attention … Read More »

Overcoming the Peter Principle with Business Simulations

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 »

Teaching a Business Literacy Workshop to Entrepreneurs in the Bahamas

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 »

Bemus Landscape Case Study: How One Family-Owned Business Exceeded Business Acumen Expectations In Less Than 2 Days

Bemus Landscape experiences greater company-wide communication and holistic business understanding after completing an Income|Outcome Andromeda business simulation workshop. Bemus Landscape, Inc. began as one man’s venture in earning cash to pay for college in 1973. From humble beginnings mowing lawns … Read More »

Comments from Aalborg University

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 »

Teachable moments in a business game

In the last post Ana Leiderman talked about the reason teams will oversell their capacity, and how that becomes a teachable moment in the classroom. Here are a few more teachable-moment scenarios we noticed this week. The events occur spontaneously … Read More »

Business Simulations: Go Ahead, Bite Off More than You Can Chew!

Business simulations provide golden opportunities to make connections to the real-world business. Here, Ana Leiderman talks about how game dynamics lead to insightful decisions about sub-contractors. ===== In a business simulation teams will push the limits, such as deciding to … Read More »

Who knew finance training workshops could be so much fun?

People learn best when they are engaged. Engagement is easy when people are involved in a team competition. A good business simulation like Income/Outcome provides this. And when people compete head to head to win customers in a competitive market, … Read More »

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