Understand and leverage business games.

Analytical frameworks, use cases and resources to effectively integrate simulation into your teaching or training programs.

What is a business game?

A management simulation in which participants run a company and make decisions that have a direct impact on their results.

Participants are placed in a real decision-making situation: they define their strategy, weigh several options and measure the consequences of their choices.

  1. 1 Decide.
  2. 2 Observe.
  3. 3 Adjust.
With every round, the cycle starts over.

What a business game is not

The word “game” often creates confusion. A business game is neither a theory lecture in disguise nor pointless entertainment: it is a management simulation in which every decision draws on real data and produces measurable consequences. Clearing up these misconceptions is what reveals its full educational value.

  • A theory course

    Participants don’t just listen: they act and decide.

    In reality, they run a company as a team and build their skills through experience, not through note-taking.

  • A gimmicky game disconnected from reality

    Every decision is based on realistic data and constraints.

    In reality, prices, margins, inventory, competition: the model reproduces the real mechanics of a market, with no arbitrary chance.

  • A job-specific simulation

    The goal is not to learn a trade, but to run a company.

    In reality, it develops strategic vision and cross-functional decision-making, useful in every sector.

See how a business game actually works

How does a business game work?

  • 01

    Make decisions

    Teams define their strategy: pricing, production, investments, HR...

  • 02

    Observe the results

    The market evolves according to the decisions made by each competitive universe.

  • 03

    Adjust the strategy

    Teams analyze their results and adapt their choices for the next round.

The game cycle
Analysis Decisions Simulation Adjustment

Learning
anchored in action.

You don’t learn to drive just by reading the highway code: it’s by being behind the wheel that you truly understand a company’s levers.

A driving instructor supports a driver on the road: you learn by driving, not just by reading the code.

“You don’t learn to drive just by reading the highway code.”

70% Experience

Testing, making mistakes, understanding the impacts: it’s by doing that you learn to steer.

20% Interactions

Debating, defending your choices, confronting points of view.

10% Theory

Establishing the key concepts and structuring the learning.

The questions
you’re asking yourself.

The essentials to frame your project before getting started.

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The facilitator frames the rounds, launches the simulations and debriefs the decisions. Arkhé support is available to facilitate alongside you or in your place.

The platform automatically reports each team’s performance indicators and decisions: you assess the quality of the reasoning, not stacks of papers.

Managers run a fictional company as a team, make trade-offs under constraints and measure the impact of their choices: a training ground with no real-world risk.

The choice of simulator and the number of hours adapt to the level (high school, bachelor’s, master’s, professional training) and to the targeted educational objectives.

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