Bring leading strategy simulations into your classroom
Change how you teach strategy, innovation, entrepreneurship, clusters and digital transformation with next-generation experiential learning.
About the Strategy Tools Simulations
Strategy Tools is a leading provider of strategy simulations and learning solutions to business schools, universities and high schools worldwide. We supply, train and partner with education institutions to change how they teach.
We have developed a large number of strategy learning elements. From Executive programs, MBA, Ph.D., Graduate, Bachelor, and even High School, the solutions can be assembled in a highly flexible, yet impactful way.
- The Scale Up! Bundle
- The Transform! Bundle
- The Supercluster! Bundle
- The Digital Transformation! Bundle
Build a better classroom
Business Has Changed. Now you can Install ground-breaking learning methods straight into your classroom. Learn how to lead a strategic transformation. Use simulations, learning aids and software in one impactful solution.
Hands-on learning
Action learning at scale. Shift from textbooks to strategy simulation and new learning tools.
Teach across industries and domains
14 industries included. More industries can be easily added or developed in a collaboration project.
Make strategy fun and actionable again
Give students the most powerful strategy learning experience a classroom can give.
Create a unique learning experience for your students
- Accelerate learning by gamifying your classroom with strategy simulations
- Drive engagement & impact – and faster understanding
- An alternative to long, detached presentations that lead nowhere
- Based on real and current market environments
Strategy, finance, business models
- Work on strategy together with your students on relevant tools that have been developed for today’s environment.
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Use visual tools to improve understanding and learning impact
Collaborate and follow up on progress – in the cloud
- Work together with your students on the app – anytime, anywhere
- Follow-up after the simulation on real, actionable strategies
- Take the learnings in the cloud
How it works
As-a-Service
We come to you. We co-teach in your classroom.
1-3 Days
Purchase
Your purchase. Basic Training recommended.
Online
Train Your Team
We train and certify your faculty. They run it in the classroom.
1-2 Days
Multi-Year Collaboration
We work closely with your faculty and learning lab to build skills, capabilities and customize content to your teaching programs.
Years
Educational Levels
EXECUTIVE
MBA
PHD
GRADUATE
BACHELORS
HIGH-SCHOOL
SIMPLIFIED SETUP RECOMMENDED
GREAT FIT
STRONG FIT
VERY STRONG FIT
Running a Simulation
From 3 to 16 per table
Group sizes are between 1 (limited learning) to 4 per team, with up to 4 teams per table. Each table can hold from 3 to 16 people. The recommended size is 3-4 groups of 3 people per group.
A session can have anywhere from one table to 30+ tables, depending on the group size, materials, and available space.
From 3 hours to 3+ days
The simulations can be designed around 1/2 day, 1-day, 2-day or 3-day workshop programs, depending on the depth of learning and impact.
The 1-day format is common. Some faculty members are looking into even longer programs, even extending across multiple academic courses in a single semester.
Facilitator Setup
Each group should have one table facilitator. This can be faculty or students. For multiple groups, students can manage each table, with the faculty member as Master Facilitator.
For first-time facilitators, basic learning and training (offline or online) are suggested.
BUSINESS SCHOOL SCALE UP SESSION
Strategy Tools @FHV Voralberg, Graduate-level Entrepreneurship, Austria
“For the past year, I have been searching for a simulation relevant to the Berkley Method of Entrepreneurship, experiential learning and building a startup from scratch.
We ran our simulation with 19 students divided into 2 groups, each of us running one board. The students, the school and I were all suitably impressed with Chris and the simulation. I look forward to running a few more sessions under my belt and bringing this new modality of learning to the US.”
RICK RASMUSSEN
INDUSTRY FELLOW AND DIRECTOR, STARTUP PROGRAMS SUTARDJA CENTER FOR ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND TECHNOLOGY, UC BERKLEY COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING
Participant Feedback
I will not forget this experience for the next decade.
My brain is fried.
Now I feel comfortable negotiating with investors.
I wish we had this much earlier in the MBA Program.
The emotional engagement, the energy, is a big part of the learning design.
I love this.
Every simulation feels like two Master’s Programs.
Some of the topics we cover
Scale Up!
- Entrepreneurship
- LEAN Start-up
- Capital Raise
- Finance
- Leadership
- Teamwork
Supercluster!
- Clusters
- Networks
- Ecosystems
- Collaboration & Teamwork
- Strategic Decision-making
Transform!
- Strategy & Decision-making
- Innovation
- Transformation
- Business Model Design
- Leadership & Teamwork
- Corporate Finance
COMING IN 2020
Digital Transformation!
- Digital Strategy
- Platform-based Business Models
- Digital Ecosystems
- Competitive Dynamics vs. Digital Giants
- Investment Decisions & Business Cases for Digital Investments
Business Schools using Strategy Tools
Custom Simulations Developed for Your Program
Our team has years of experience distilling complex strategies into easy-to-grasp tools and workshop formats.
Let’s discuss how we can custom shape a powerful strategy simulation for your program, that fits within your curriculum.
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