Areas of application
Strategy Development
Strategic simulations provide an opportunity to look into possible future developments, while addressing urgent problems. Based on a real world situation and empirical data, they engage important stakeholders in a collaborative process of building a realistic yet simplified representation of their specific challenge.
Organizational Change
Social simulations improve communication and cooperation within and between teams. Participants exercise the negotiation skills to reach compromises and collaborate for a common cause, which leads to their commitment to implement a shared vision.
Experiments
Social simulations can be applied to run experiments in different fields, including economics, sociology, psychology, and others. Using a programmed interface and a wide array of settings helps the researcher to create a controlled environment for an experiment and to include different experimental treatments.
Education,
capacity building
Engaged in an experience that feels real, participants retain more information and learn faster. Social simulations turn classrooms into safe learning environments that allow students to test their assumptions and knowledge, and make mistakes without bearing their real costs.