Boardroom Wargames.Drawing on the premise that war and business have a lot in common, a group of South African military scientists have switched their attention to the private sector and applied battlefield technique to business planning, training and management. The result is a series of wargaming software that applies the wiles wile n. 1. A stratagem or trick intended to deceive or ensnare. 2. A disarming or seductive manner, device, or procedure: the wiles of a skilled negotiator. 3. Trickery; cunning. of warfare to survival in the business jungle. The CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. becomes the CiC and the men and women in his or her employ are the troops. A growing list of South African blue-chip companies are buying into the software, launched by Acuity Alpha, subsidiary of Acuity Group Holdings, a multi-disciplinary consulting company Noun 1. consulting company - a firm of experts providing professional advice to an organization for a fee consulting firm business firm, firm, house - the members of a business organization that owns or operates one or more establishments; "he worked for a . Companies are applying the simulation, Agile, to integrated supply chain management, problem solving problem solving Process involved in finding a solution to a problem. Many animals routinely solve problems of locomotion, food finding, and shelter through trial and error. and team building and leadership development. It works like this: participants are divided into combat teams who play their usual business roles -- in finance, distribution, sales and marketing. The game is tailored to the participants' environment and is structured to meet agreed objectives. A diverse range of interventions likely to happen in the real world is also programmed in, such as supply shortages, price increases and strikes, depending on the objectives of the exercise. Artificial intelligence The artificial intelligence built into Agile's software enables it to respond to the behaviour of the players, simulating the real business environment almost exactly. In two days, players experience the impact of their decisions on two years of their business, providing an enlightened, condensed con·dense v. con·densed, con·dens·ing, con·dens·es v.tr. 1. To reduce the volume or compass of. 2. To make more concise; abridge or shorten. 3. Physics a. view of the dynamics of their business in the real world. "Many training, team-building and predictive tools are remote from the real business environment, making it difficult to close the conceptual gap between the theory and the real thing," says Ninell Lamprecht, a director of Acuity Alpha, and the driving force behind the gaming applications in Acuity. "Our experience in strategic planning Strategic planning is an organization's process of defining its strategy, or direction, and making decisions on allocating its resources to pursue this strategy, including its capital and people. for the military necessitated an emphasis on planning for the unexpected, because in war lives are at stake. The consequence of this experience on Agile as a business tool has resulted in its ability to dramatically highlight the shortcomings A shortcoming is a character flaw. Shortcomings may also be:
The Alpha team is headed by national strategy masters degree holder, Hoffman van Zyl van Zyl is an Afrikaans surname, and may refer to:
Lamprecht is currently completing her masters in gaming and quantitative management after research at Princeton University on combat modelling. |
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