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title: "How To Teach Business Strategy With a Simulation Game"
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# How To Teach Business Strategy With a Simulation Game
Strategy is one of the most difficult business concepts to teach and learn.
Those of us who grew up playing board games likely have an advantage. **Board games** are an effective way to experience and practice strategy — but they are not nearly as good as **software simulation**.
Why? Because **board games** take a long time to play, and only a few people can play together. Games with deeper strategy require so many hours of play and so many rules to follow that they are not practical for most educational environments.
A **business simulation** enables deep gameplay that is more widely accessible and can be played by many people together in person or online, synchronously or asynchronously. And, it can provide data — lots of data.
In this video, I demonstrate how we use a **Strategy Guide** in an **online business simulation game** to help students add structure to strategic thinking and use data results to apply evidence-based decision-making.
Check it out ...
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# How To Teach Business Strategy With a Simulation Game
Strategy is one of the most difficult business concepts to teach and learn.
Those of us who grew up playing board games likely have an advantage. **Board games** are an effective way to experience and practice strategy — but they are not nearly as good as **software simulation**.
Why? Because **board games** take a long time to play, and only a few people can play together. Games with deeper strategy require so many hours of play and so many rules to follow that they are not practical for most educational environments.
A **business simulation** enables deep gameplay that is more widely accessible and can be played by many people together in person or online, synchronously or asynchronously. And, it can provide data — lots of data.
In this video, I demonstrate how we use a **Strategy Guide** in an **online business simulation game** to help students add structure to strategic thinking and use data results to apply evidence-based decision-making.
Check it out ...