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