A Management Simulator to Support Group Decision Making in a Corporate Gaming Environment

摘要

Successful corporate management requires specialization, i.e. the separation of tasks. In a historic perspective this lead to the manufacturing philosophy of "Taylorism" and the delegation of decision making--concepts that have proved highly successful in the past. But the same developments bear the risk of failure through uncoordinated activities. Management becomes futile without coherent action. Especially in a dynamic environment, as it is found e.g. in innovation management, this (potential) gap between isolated operations and coherent strategy has to be closed. Team or Cooperative Learning is necessary to define and to achieve that overall corporate objectives (Senge 1990; Argyris 1990).