People learn best when they are engaged. Engagement is easy when people are involved in a team competition. A good business simulation like Income/Outcome provides this. And when people compete head to head to win customers in a competitive market, … Read More
Travel and trade (including the trade in ideas) go together naturally, and therefore so does innovation. You should expect that the crossroads of travel and trade will have not just the biggest mix of peoples, but also the most entrepreneurship … Read More
The Company Board® is a graphical presentation of the financial results of a company. Individual line items in the Income Statement and Balance Sheet are represented by colored stacks, with the scale shown in the center. For example, here is … Read More
Normally our prospective clients are happy with the range of products we offer for teaching business acumen: five levels of program to choose from, multiple industry models, and a dozen languages. And we end our workshops with a module that … Read More
“The two most popular words in the business lexicon”, the Economist opined earlier this year, “are probably ‘global’ and ‘leadership’.” The World Economic Forum in Davos each year epitomizes this: 1,000 corporate heads and 50 heads of government getting together … Read More
We often look at business acumen as a group of business skills competencies including finance, strategy and decision-making. Today I was reviewing some post-workshop comments from an Income/Outcome program in Japan, and I realized that ‘big picture understanding’ may not … Read More
One of the current technological innovations which will have the greatest social impact is the introduction of driverless cars. Change will occur in stages. The first driverless cars will be more aware of their immediate environment than a human driver … Read More
From our company’s earliest beginnings in British Columbia in 1989, through our incorporation of Andromeda Training in North Carolina in 1993 and our creation of the first Income/Outcome simulations in 1996, we have always been prepared to change and adapt. … Read More
Sometimes people working for non-profits or not-for-profit organizations are unfamiliar with basic business concepts and ideas. Non-profits don’t consider themselves to be “in business.” They see themselves as an organization working for the betterment of the community or the world. … Read More
For those who feel that the technological marvels foreseen in the 1950s have failed to materialize, the heartfelt cry is “Where’s my flying car?” Well, yes, the Terrafugia Transition is here. They’ll cost around $300,000 when they’re in regular production. … Read More