Ophir Gal, Business Development Manager at Aviv-Yissum
I would like to focus about the nature of the Israeli people and their business managers. You may say that Israel’s people, and Israeli managers, are constant arguers, bad planners, not good listeners etc. However they are also talented, practical, quick learners and flexible; born of long years of reacting to desperate situations and unexpected disasters.
Having said that, you can probably guess what we believe is the best learning method that fits busy Israeli managers…one guess it is not frontal lecture.
Working for many years with many companies and managers from various industries have tought us at Aviv-Yissum that the practical and challenging Income/Outcome simulation is without doubt one of the best methods.
When we summarize a simulaton we often hear feedbacks like: “What I did not understand about business in two long semesters of my MBA studies, I understood after only one day of playing”.
Income/Outcome is a simulation that helps teach resource optimization. But it is far more than that. It challenges participants to make the most of what they have, to synthesize strategic approaches, and to build, in a very realistic exercise, the kind of mindset and decision skills that they will need in today’s uncertain world.
We all hope that in a year or so, the world will begin to emerge from the 2008-9 recession. But even when it does, the uncertainty in the markets will remain. More than ever managers will need first-class business and financial understanding, decision-making skills etc . More than ever practical hands-on simulations will help them build those business acumen skills.
Ophir Gal, Business Development Manager
Aviv Yissum Strategies & Compensation
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The business simulations is indeed, a great way to introduce the complex business world to students and help them to confront the difficulty of the rapidly changing business world in a fun way, wrapped up as a training game
Through games and simulation we can train a new form of students and managers
Using a computer based simulations hold many advantages and helps a lot in making the learning curve easier to claim
Such as: hold statistic on you as a individual while playing the game and check on your progress and
Compare you to other players, students, managers in the game
It can also guide you along the way and save you a lot of money trying to gain this precious experience in the real world
I hope that many more business games will be available on line such as The CEO Game upcoming business Game
And mini economy