People are often sent on training courses to gain knowledge of particular subjects.
Usually, people are given the theory in traditional classroom courses or e-learning modules and are then left to gain the experience in a real life, often mission critical, environment, without guidance or support; then people complain that the best practice is no good, whereas a lot of the problems are associated with our inability to translate the theory into practice, and not understanding how to apply it.
A business simulation game is a form of experiential learning, or learning-by-doing. People learn, in a number of game rounds, to translate theory into practice. They learn how to use the theory to achieve measurable results.
Does this mean that they need to have attended a training course first? No, not at all. By attending a business simulation with no preconceptions of the theory of “how to do it”, people learn as much as those who have attended training. Sometimes more.
Are business simulation games only for IT? Again, no. Business simulation workshops like MarsLander, allow those from the wider business to experience what IT experiences and learn how to build a closer working relationship with IT in a “safe” environment where everyone can try and fail, or try and succeed, without a business impact.
This simulation is a powerful way to stimulate a new way of thinking within the IT organisation. It also shows in one interactive day, the essence of ITSM Next Generation practices such as ITILⓇ4 or VeriSM.
MarsLander is about exploring and experiencing how you can transform your current IT organisation into a more Agile and Lean organisation. The following aspects will be experienced and discussed:
Usually, people are given the theory in traditional classroom courses or e-learning modules and are then left to gain the experience in a real life, often mission critical, environment, without guidance or support; then people complain that the best practice is no good, whereas a lot of the problems are associated with our inability to translate the theory into practice, and not understanding how to apply it.
A business simulation game is a form of experiential learning, or learning-by-doing. People learn, in a number of game rounds, to translate theory into practice. They learn how to use the theory to achieve measurable results.
Does this mean that they need to have attended a training course first? No, not at all. By attending a business simulation with no preconceptions of the theory of “how to do it”, people learn as much as those who have attended training. Sometimes more.
Are business simulation games only for IT? Again, no. Business simulation workshops like MarsLander, allow those from the wider business to experience what IT experiences and learn how to build a closer working relationship with IT in a “safe” environment where everyone can try and fail, or try and succeed, without a business impact.
This simulation is a powerful way to stimulate a new way of thinking within the IT organisation. It also shows in one interactive day, the essence of ITSM Next Generation practices such as ITILⓇ4 or VeriSM.
MarsLander is about exploring and experiencing how you can transform your current IT organisation into a more Agile and Lean organisation. The following aspects will be experienced and discussed:
- How can service teams help and how to create high performing teams?
- How can we visualise our work, using KanBan?
- How can we increase the flow of work?
- How to work closer together with development
- How to continuously improve our services
- How to become a flexible service organisation that responds rapidly to changing demands
- How to become more customer focused, and develop this ‘customer thinking’ into our teams
- How to effectively manage workload (end-to-end) and how to reduce unplanned work
- How to increase customer and employee satisfaction
- How to prioritise the conflicts between Projects, Incidents, Events, Problems & Improvements, based on value
Some of our clients