Author Archives: Tom Grant
Serious Games At Work podcast episode #3: Peter Perla on wargaming
Peter Perla of CNA discusses the distinguished heritage of wargaming as a tool for contingency planning and strategy development. What the heck does that mean? Governments play out potential conflicts in advance, such as the recently aborted attack on Syria. … Continue reading
Do “newsgames” belong on the front page or the op-ed section?
Every new field of study or practice starts with a taxonomy. Serious games are no different. Accurate, meaningful classification is important: since there are a lot of different serious game options out there, it’s easy to pick the wrong tool … Continue reading
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Embase (division of Elsevier B.V.)
Business problem: Insights Serious games used: Speedboat Embase, a division of Elsevier B.V. used Speedboat at their exhibit booth during the Medical Library Association spring meeting of 2010. They ran the game several times a day in 20-minute bursts, focusing on … Continue reading
Serious Games At Work podcast #2: Tomas Rawlings of Game The News
Tomas Rawlings is the founder of Game The News, which has produced “newsgames” like Endgame: Syria and Narcoguerra. In this episode, we talk with Tomas about what games can do to inform people about current events in ways that other … Continue reading
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McGill University
Business problem: Education Serious games used: Custom wargame The organizers of a week-long simulation at McGill University invited journalism to participate in this event, during which they would play the roles of reporters covering a conflict in the imaginary country … Continue reading
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Major European bank (name withheld)
Business problem: Insights Serious games used: Custom-designed business wargame Sometimes the success is about the crisis foreseen and averted. Pan-Europa Bank (a fictionalized name for reasons of confidentiality) wanted to test its performance in a series of disrupted environments, including … Continue reading
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Serious Games At Work podcast #1: Phaedra Boinodiris of IBM
Welcome to the inaugural episode of Serious Games At Work! In this series, we’ll explore the ways in which games can change the rules of work, politics, education, and other serious activities, often very quickly and without a huge investment. Need … Continue reading
Serious games help Agile teams get even more nimble
Make smarter decisions faster, so that you can deliver high-value software. Continue reading
Caterpillar
Business problem: Insights Serious games used: Custom-designed business war game By the mid-1980s, the heavy truck industry was facing a host of challenges. The industry was suffering from poor profitability, driven by deregulation and European and Japanese expansion into US … Continue reading
Biogen
Business problem: Insights Serious games used: Custom-designed business wargame In the fall of 1985, the biotechnology company Biogen faced a formidable challenge: launching its first product, a drug to treat relapsing multiple scleroris, into a market already dominated by several … Continue reading
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