Learning by doing: the power of serious gaming

Why use games?

Our games help you explore the complexity of your challenge in a playful yet impactful way. You gain immediate insight: for instance, by exploring Machine Learning through a game, you gain a better understanding of the underlying processes and trade-offs. You begin to view mathematical models from a new perspective and discover alternative approaches to solving problems.

Which games do we use?

Our offering is broad and tailored to a variety of learning objectives. A few examples:

• Cooker Test – Experiment with settings in a production process and discover how natural variation and parameter choices affect outcomes.
• Sales Game – Explore how your actions influence sales performance and learn more about data collection and decision-making.
• Machine Learning Game – Build your own decision tree and experience how data analysis and classification work in practice.
• Assignment Game – Find the optimal allocation of service points and see how decision rules and constraints impact results.
• Warehousing Game – Simulate a logistics challenge and learn how to manage limited resources efficiently.

Tailored to your needs

Our games are always part of a consultancy project, training session, or workshop. They allow participants to gain insights in an interactive way and help make complex topics immediately applicable. By first tackling a problem through play, and then exploring the underlying theory, it becomes easier to make connections and absorb the material.

Our serious games are suitable for a range of group sizes and can be adapted to the specific setting. Most games are played in 4–6 teams of 2–4 participants. Game duration varies from 1–2 hours to a half-day session, depending on the format and available time. This makes them flexible for both short sessions and more in-depth training programmes.

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