Decide-It

Educational games and simulation are often referred to as Experiential Exercises indicating that they directly incorporate knowledge which can be acquired and practiced interacting with them. Decide-It is designed to teach Dynamic Decision Making in a quick and effective way. Dynamic decision making refers to the kind of decision making required in complex and rapidly changing situations very common in nowadays business world. In such complex and dynamic environments: 1.a number of decisions are required rather than a big single decision 2.decisions are interdependent, while the environment can change accordingly to the result of the decisions, by itself or in both ways. 3.it is important to understand the feedback structure of the system to be faced (e.g. Inventory management, Cash management, Equipment, etc.). Typically, in dynamic environments the consequences of our decisions may be delayed in time. Causal relations are not linear so the same decision taken at different times has a different effect. Players can learn and experience the basic principles of dynamic decision making in a game session lasting only few minutes. This makes it the ideal training tool for the management sector where time is often a crucial factor.