The CEO Game

• 19Oct

  Why You Should Be Playing The CEO Game?

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  You might want to ask: why use a game?

  Can’t you just teach people basic management and economic rules? Well, the answer is: Of course not!

  Why not?

  Because human nature is such that makes us interested in something only when we see it as a challenge. Some of the most fascinating novels, the most brilliant movies, and the best guide books, are not appreciated as they should, simply because they do not interact with the reader or viewer. The CEO Game offers something new: an Interactive and serious, yet fun, challenging game that is being updated non-stop.

  Sounds nice, so why not play Monopoly?

  Well, first of all, you should play Monopoly; fun board games may contribute to your financial knowledge. But this can’t be compared to an online serious game such as the CEO Game.

  What is so different about them?

  Firstly, you can play the CEO Game, whenever you would like, alone, with friends, in the morning, at midnight, anytime…

  The second reason is that nowadays, using the new technologies we discover and develop, we can reach a new level of teaching that has never been seen before, simulating the market, forcing players to consider every move they make, making them face the consequences of their actions, and all of that in a neutral, peaceful world where the threat of losing their job is not over their heads.

  The third, and maybe the most important reason, is that in the CEO Game one can study not merely from the interaction with the computer but as well as from observing the actions of fellow participants.

  Do I recommend playing the CEO game?

  Yes, indeed. The 21^st century will sooner or later dictate its own new and modern method of teaching. One must not fear it, but accept it with the understandingthat these serious games have a new capability of making people, wherever internet access is available, enjoy a modern method of studying some of the lessons that a few decades ago one would probably dismiss as a lesson “you can only learn in the real life”. Well Not anymore.

  

  The CEO Game - Serious Business Game

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• 09Oct

  Project Natal – A Whole New Level of Simulation

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  Earlier this summer, Microsoft unleashed its newest innovation, a hands-free motion-sensitive control system that would allow a player to control the action of games with full body movement. Project Natal does this without making the user strap on a single sensor! Instead, it uses a self-contained module that is simply added onto the Xbox 360. The video camera in it tracks body placement and movement, reads depth, tracks 48 of your body’s joints, and can track multiple players. Project Natal can even differentiate your patterned shirt from the pattern on the upholstery and your voice from background noise. This bold project completely eliminates the need for hand-held controllers and allows the player to more fully immerse themselves in the world of the game.

  

  Project Natal – Changing The Way We Play

  So what does this mean for serious gaming? Obviously, seamless interaction between player and game means that simulations can be that more engaging, life-like, and therefore educational. For serious games such the army training game that we discussed earlier or flight simulations, the applications are immediate and clearly beneficial. Project Natal can sense and track a person crawling on the floor like a war simulation, or can sense a pilot’s motions in a game simply by having the player hold out his hands as though he is holding onto a wheel. In this way, it can give people extra experience in physical tasks that are otherwise hard to simulate.
  But it seems that Project Natal will have serious application to other simulations that don’t focus on physical dexterity, including business simulations. In one demo of Project Natal, a woman interacts with a boy called Milo onscreen. Milo converses fluently with the demonstrator, picking up her mood by the tone of her voice and responding accordingly, and “taking” a picture she drew from her — and he recognizes it as an orange fish! There is a lot of potential for such intelligent, sensitive characters to interact with people in business simulations. Much of the job of a CEO is interaction with people, be they clients, workers, or peers. If Microsoft can actually pull of such detailed, responsive characters, the potential for serious gaming of all sorts is astounding.
  Microsoft has yet to announce when Project Natal will become available, but keep your ears open for this exciting new development in gaming. Until then, game your heart out with other serious games, including, of course, the CEO Game.

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• 30Sep

  Serious Games – Learning Platform

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  If you’re following this blog, then you have probably noticed that fact that the CEO Game is a serious game that will be a good tool for improving business-related skills. If it’s your first time please read our introduction post.  You might ask yourself if a computer game, or as we call it, a serious game, can really be a platform for passing on educational values? Can it really help? Well we believe it can.

  Serious games can be a way to enrich our lives. They can educate us through lessons embedded in the game play, they can provide training that otherwise might be expansive or dangerous like surgery simulation or military training, they can aid in raising the awareness especially of global issues such as global warming, they can improve our creativity, and thanks to the new technology they can even make you move, such as through the Nintendo WII. Serious games can really help us change the world because of all of these strengths – and you can enjoy yourself in the process.

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• 10Sep

  Serious Games For a Serious Army

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  Americas Army is a serious game simulating a first person shooter that was developed by the US government. The US government believed that using a serious game that will educate people on the subject will improve the public opinion on the US army. The US Army game play contains two major parts: The first part is the online training simulation that teaches the player about the basic skills that  every soldier needs. The second part is the online game that allows players to compete vs. each other and gain experience in previous learned skills. The game was released in 2005 and by august 2007 had more than 4.8 million players which passed the basic trainings and became active players.
  The reason we decided to write about Americas Army is first to expose a one more example of successful serious game that got popular and second of all the show the wide variety of possibilities that can be achieved using online serious games.

  I also attached a movie of one of the online training modules of America’s Army:

  We at the CEO Game are currently developing such online simulation in the field of business management. We believe that using such business simulations as the CEO game can be a fun and educational experience that will assist you in improving your management skills. We also want to invite you to keep visiting us for more news and updates.

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• 06Sep

  Educational Video Games

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  Most parents don’t like video games. They have bad reputation!

  The main reason is because children spend hours of playing without any educational aspect. Moreover, they most likely absorb some violent or other bad principals.

  

  Learning From Video Games

  About the value of serious games, we’ve discussed a lot. In a nutshell, it refers to games that combine playing with educational values. You may encounter serious games in many different life aspects. For example:

  • School and academic uses, for increase the students’ interest and for better implementation for the learned subject.
  • In the business world, were many companies combine business simulations as a way for training their management team.
  • Military uses for implement tactic and strategic point of view.

  A recent trend from the field of serious games is “Serious video games”.

  This latest Video Games fashion shows that video games can be valuable educational tool. Furthermore, those games are not only for kids!

  If you wonder if this market is profitable, the answer is it’s on the ascent.
  The video games industry is rolling 30 Billion dollars a year, whereas the serious video games share is only a Billion.
  Although the numbers are relatively small, venture capitals and other investors are only now starting to realize the tremendous money-making potential of this market.

  The CEO Game is an online business serious game, a game where you acquire significant business knowledge and improve your management skills.
  At the moment we are building software, based on the internet platform and connected to the real-world’s data.
  In the future, we plan to transfer the game to a video game platform which is a great opportunity to reach many other players – young CEOs? Only time can tell…

  Based on: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5072275

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• 24Aug

  Learning While Playing Serious Games

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  This movie describes few different implementations of different kind of serious games. The reason I took the time and attached this movie is again to show the different variety of implementation a serious game can have. As past research as shown the field of serious games is evolving quite rapidly in the last few years and by now you can already see different implementation in leading companies such as IBM or Coca Cola. The CEO game comes to serve that exact need for an online business simulation that will provide the required training for corporate personal or just anybody else that wants to learn how to manage and have fun in the process. We again invite you to register to our Beta (Which will be lunched at 1/1/10) and enjoy the experience.

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• 20Aug

  IBM Returns To The Serious Game Market With Innov8

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  IBM returns to the serious game market with their new release Innov8 2.0. Innov8 2.0 is a serious game of business process management simulator (or BPM) . The main goal of this new IBM product is to improve the business productivity of IT and business professionals by improving their understanding of the processes that are critical for the company’s success. Innov8 allow business and IT players about the importance of managing businesses processes and how they affect the entire organization. The game itself is combined with 3 mini games which each one of them tries to simulate a different aspect of business process management. The 3 games are Smarter Supply Chain, Smarter Customer Service and Smarter Traffic. The game is currently open and you play it by entering innov8 page on IBM’s website.

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• 19Aug

  The Game Theory In The CEO Game

  Business management, Economy, The CEO Game What is Your Opinion?

  A lot have been said about the game theory since the beginning of the 20^th century.
  The mathematic field, which combines almost every other academic area, controls our daily thinking, or at least need to be taken into consideration without any doubts!.  The most basic business rule is that we all wish to maximize our profits. Every time we face someone, we are in some sort of a game of who will gain the most. Still the way to describe this challenge in mathematic equations is by assuming that the other (or others) acts rational like the ‘Economic person’. More information about the irrational economic can be found at the behavioral economic post.

  

  It's More Than Luck.

  There are many different types of games that the game theory describes. Each of whom you can find useful for the CEO, the entrepreneur or for the everyday Joe. CEO’s most understand that most of the decisions they make, can be analyzed and describe in mathematic tools, for achieving better prospective of the dilemma they facing. The more you try to emphasize your dilemmas in this manner the better you’ll become.  Those who master this skill will grow stronger and the stronger you get the better you’ll run your business!

  In other words, as many true dilemmas we’re facing in everyday life, Business Simulation develops our abilities and improves us and decision making. The CEO Game provides you with real-world virtual platform, in which you must consider the game theory principals (more on the principal in future blogs or in videos).Playing the CEO Game and learn how to use the statistics for you own favor. Other players, other CEOs, other entrepreneurs, other future business tycoons- they all want a piece of you, either  combining forces or fighting over the same markets or goals.

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