Management Game

Management game is a development technique in which teams of managers compete by making computerized decisions regarding realistic but simulated situations.

With computerized management games, trainees divide into five-or six-person groups, each of which competes with the others in a simulated marketplace. Each group typically must decide, for example, (1) how much to spend on advertising (2) how mush to produce, (3)how much inventory to maintain, and (4) how many of which product to produce, usually, the game compresses a 2-or 3 year period into days, weeks or months. As in the real world, each company team usually can’t see what decisions (such as to boost advertising) the other firms have made, although these decisions to affect their own sales.