The Profit Doctor’s FREE Interactive Business Games
Pilots have to go through it to survive,
why don’t business owners?
Business Owners Are
Now Having Fun Learning How To
Make Their Business More Successful!
And So Can You!
Owning and running a business can be a daunting task, especially in today’s
economy. Many businesses are having trouble making ends meet and they’re laying
people off, which makes the economy even worse. Business owners are constantly
under the gun to come up with new and innovative ways to make their business
survive in these turbulent times. But many businesses don’t dare try them
in the fear that if it doesn’t work, it will kill their business. Now there’s
a safe and fun way to try out new techniques.
Before an airline pilot is allowed to fly those multi-million dollar planes,
they have to go through extensive training on a simulator. They are tested
with as many potential problems a plane could ever encounter to see how well
they would handle it. Many times the pilot ‘crashes the plane’, but they
can easily pick themselves up from the ground and try again.
But businesses have not had this option in their business career until now.
T. Stephen Anderson, ‘The Profit Doctor’ stated “I have been a pilot in the
past and I know the value of this simulated training. It saved me in several
instances from crashing my plane for real. I was prepared for the problems
I encountered. Because I have been a business trainer and consultant for
the past 15 years, I have seen many businesses that did not want to take
any chances in the fear it would not work and have an adverse affect on their
business. So I’ve assembled 18 different business simulation games to let
business owners test new skills in a safe environment. I’ve even added a
few games managing a professional baseball or football team, so the business
owners can have fun and reduce their stress..”
Why not have fun while learning how to improve your business. Click on the
links to go to the game you would like try. As you try the games, I will
be sending you some articles and also some special offers to help you improve
on your scores. There's even some fun games for the sports fan and beer drinkers
alike. ENJOY!!
1) Finance Management Simulation Game:
Creates a simple income statement based on sales, revenue, costs, and profit.
Goal is to maximize cumulative profitability. Click here to get
started on playing for the money!
2) Workforce Planning:
Simulates staffing at company that experiences initial high growth. Your
goal is to have enough staff to meet sales demand. Click here to get started
planning for your workforce.
3) Project Management:
Manage a project over several weeks. The model shows how mistakes can lengthen
project completion time. Click here to get started
in planning your projects.
4) Supply Chain:
Shows how oscillations or business cycles can occur in a supply chain from
small changes in customer orders. Click Here to get started
learning how to improve your supply chain system.
5) PDA Simulation:
Experiment with new strategies for growing a high-technology business as
you manage a company selling handheld computer organizers. In PDA Sim, you
learn through experience how to manage a portfolio of products across multiple
product lifecycles. Learn how to use financial data to make pricing and product
line decisions. Experience how your decisions can have consequences many
years into the future. Thousands of people have used PDA Sim and articles
about PDA Sim have appeared in Wired Magazine, Fast Company, and CNET. Click here to have
fun planning and implementing your new product: PDA's.
6) Pricing Strategy:
The Price Strategy Simulator illustrates the difficulties in developing an
effective pricing strategy against an aggressive competitor. The price strategy
simulator is tuned to represent the PC industry, and you can change the simulation
to represent your own company. In the starting scenario, you play a company
that is about the size of HP or Compaq (pre-merger) and your competitor is
about the size of Dell. You compete on price and the market perceives your
computers as being of roughly equal quality. Click Here to get started
learning how to price your products more effectively.
7) Learning Curve for Service Organizations:
This simulation, developed by Harvard Business School professor Rogelio Oliva,
analyzes the service capability of organizations with experienced and inexperienced
staff. Many service organizations rely on specific skill sets that need to
be developed through apprenticeship and on the job training. Under these circumstances,
personnel development consumes a significant fraction of organizational resources
and limits the organization’s growth rate. This simulator permits to assess
the impact of different growth scenarios on the service capability (productivity)
in this type of organizations. Click Here to improve
your service skills.
8) The Oakland Athletics Microworld
1.0b:
This sports business simulation is larger brother of the XFL Microworld and
developed by Zenophon Abraham, in Oakland, CA. The Oakland Athletics Microworld
places you in the position of president of the Oakland Athletics Baseball
Club, Inc., and a minority owner. You are responsible for all aspects of
the organization from players and trades to identifying the financing for
and building a new stadium between 2002 to 2017. This is a "beta" test version
and based on actual organizational data. It's designed to be a tool for the
business school classroom, the baseball executive (for scenario planning)
and the hard-core baseball fan. Click here to start
managing YOUR OWN BASEBALL TEAM!! Have fun.
9) B and B Enterprises:
Developed by Professor John Sterman of the MIT Sloan School of Management,
this simulation illustrates how capacity overshoot and price wars can occur
due to misperceptions in feedback of competitive growth markets. When you
test-pilot B and B Enterprises, you will be responsible for marketing, pricing,
and capacity expansion decisions to maximize your company's cumulative profit
over the next ten years. Click
here to start learning how to market your products competitively.
10) Travel Fatigue Calculator:
What is the true cost of business travel? The Travel Fatigue Calculator developed
by Industrial
Organizational Psychologist Dr. Joel Widzer estimates your full costs of
travel based on travel fatigue. You will be asked to enter information about
your compensation and upcoming trip. You can use this model to assess an
individual employee’s cost per trip or organizational cost by entering mean
averages of annual travel indicators. Click here to get
a better idea of how much your travel really costs your company.
11) Ecosystem Dynamics WebLab:
This is an initial prototype for an Ecosystem Dynamics WebLab. The intent
is to build a web-based simulation lab for analysis of ecosystem response
to economic, social, and environmental policies. Such a web-based lab is
necessary to support environmental education workshops and, eventually, environmental
policy research. Click
here to learn more about managing your companies environmental policies.
12) Process Dynamics in Business and
System/Software Development:
This is a simple model to show that first order (one process) systems behave
asymptotically toward the goal, second order (two processes) systems can
overshoot the goal before stabilizing at the goal, and third and higher order
(three or more processes) can generate various kinds of oscillations before
approaching the goal. Click
here to learn how to handle your various processes.
13) The Near Beer Game:
The near beer game is similar to the beer game. The original Beer Game was
developed to introduce students, managers and executives to concepts of system
dynamics. The game illustrates how "structure produces behavior." Each player
participates as a member of a team that must meet its customers' demands.
The object of the game is to minimize the total cost for your team. The game
begins in equilibrium. Customers are ordering 10 cases of beer and you have
10 case of inventory each week. In week 3, your customers increase their
orders to 15 cases of beer. Your objective is to return the system to equilibrium,
so that 15 cases of beer are available in finished goods inventory week after
week. You have 50 weeks to accomplish this objective. Click here to have fun running
a beer company.
14) XFL Microworld:
Created by Zenophon Abraham in Oakland, CA, this simulator is designed to
permit the user to become the CEO of the XFL. The XFL was a football league
established by the World Wrestling Federation and with NBC as a partner /
investor. Due to poor television ratings, the XFL only lasted for one 15-week
season. In this simulation, you are responsible for determining where XFL
teams play, how much players are paid, how large the marketing budget is,
and how much the game tickets cost, to name some of the key variables. The
objective is to maintain the XFL as a going concern over the five year simulation
run, and post a score above 40, indicating that you have caused NBC to realize
the desired return. Click
here to have fun managing a professional football team.
15) Leadership in Action:
Imagine that you lead a small development team responsible for creating a
pocket-sized, high-resolution digital camera. You need to make sure that
your team has completed a high-quality camera design within six months, but
if you get it done sooner, that's even better. In Leadership in Action, you
are responsible for setting goals, coaching your team, holding meetings,
and hiring or layoffs. You can even delegate some of your personal tasks
to your team, if you like. Click
here to learn
HAVE FUN LEARNING HOW
TO IMPROVE YOUR BUSINESS!!
Here's another site that has some fun business simulation games.
16) Gazillionaire:
Gazillionaire is a cross between Monopoly set in outer space and Wall Street
in wonderland. It's a wild, intergalactic game of business strategy. Sophisticated
real-world economic tools help you determine where supply meets demand as
you race to build your trade empire. Six people can play at a time on the
same computer or by email over the Internet. The first company to reach a
net worth of a billion kubars wins!
To get this fantastic game for FREE, Click here.
I’ve played it and had my students play it in our Economics class
and they just loved it. ENJOY!!
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