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 »

The Speed of Change, and How to Respond

We all know the world is changing, and that the speed of change is increasing. Or at least, we say we do. But not everyone embraces change. If you are already at the top of the heap, you might prefer … Read More »

Income-Outcome at the EMBA Council Conference

For the fifth year, Andromeda has been a Corporate Member of the Executive MBA Council with a presence at the annual global conference. The event was held this week at the Omni Galleria in Houston (with a side trip to … Read More »

Teaching Business Acumen in Universities

In the past two weeks Eliza and I have worked with professors in Aalborg, Denmark and Tromsø, Norway to help run three Income/Outcome workshops. Scandinavia has a justifiable reputation for innovative designs that are interesting, elegant and functional (as in … 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 »

Teaching business acumen – is it valid everywhere?

There’s a question I hear occasionally about the use of Income/Outcome for teaching fundamental business concepts: “But would it work in other countries?” That’s like asking if the Periodic Table of elements applies on other planets. The answer is Yes. … Read More »

Do Finance managers ever go bankrupt in Income/Outcome?

When I was young and inexperienced in running business simulations, many years ago, I led a 3-day workshop for a Fortune 50 computer manufacturer in which the participants came from a variety of departments. People sat with their friends. The … Read More »

What benefits do you get from Income/Outcome?

You get different benefits from attending an Income/Outcome workshop, depending on whether you are attending as an individual, as part of a team, or as part of an extensive rollout by your company. As an individual, you will learn “the … Read More »

Why Income/Outcome is great in EMBA programs

Two weeks ago Andromeda Training was a corporate attendee in Paris at the annual conference of the Executive MBA Council. I’m illustrating it with the logo from the conference a couple of years ago, because I think that better captures the … Read More »

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