Creating a long lasting learning experience through gaming

GRIP is a simulation game for complex professional settings in which players can gain real world experience in a safe and low-risk environment. Motivate, educate and create awareness for your topic. By sparking friendly competition and facilitating mistake-driven learning, you wil set the stage for professionals of the future.

Our interactive scenario’s, that have been created in coöperation with experts from universities and companies, trainers and consultants allow you to set a stage for your professionals.

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We offer GRIP in a variety of branches

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Turnaround Management (TMA)

# players
# players
5-10 per game
# scenarios
# scenarios
1 scenario
Duration
Duration
60 minutes
Complexity
Complexity
No prior knowledge required
Online/offline
Online/offline
Online and offline
Multimedia
Multimedia
News items and explanation video
Add ons
Add ons
8 add ons (incl. Future Jump)
Assignment
Assignment
Reflection on role, choices and implications
Wrap-up presentation
Wrap-up presentation
Wrap-up by expert

Scenario

The company Beenhakker BV finds itself in economically heavy weather. How do you prevent bankruptcy together with all parties involved?

Dilemma

Due to a major loss company equity has eroded. Without funding, the company is bankrupt. Secure financing for the company and carry out a reorganization that reduces personnel with 40 FTE.

Learning goals

Corporate recovery, control rights, debt structure, corporate turnaround strategy, corporate financial distress, bank "distressed debt"/ "intensive case" unit, group think, negotiation strategy (Harvard principles of negotiation).

Dilemma's and questions in this edu-game

  • How do you deal with the insights and interests of the various stakeholders about the direction of the company (the bank, the consultant, the creditors, the tax authorities and the owner)
  • How do you allow staff to flow out of the organization in a good way during the restructuring?
  • What guarantees of the parties are needed to achieve financing?
  • How do you determine whether a person is a suitable entrepreneur for the company?
  • How does your own frame of reference impact the assessment of the persons involved?
  • How do you deal with emotion versus content?
  • How to negotiate effectively? (Harvard negotiating model).
  • How do you deal with common interest and individual interest? What is really good for the company? Versus what is good for the shareholder and the other individual parties?
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Innovation

# players
# players
5-10 per game
# scenarios
# scenarios
1 scenario
Duration
Duration
60 minutes
Complexity
Complexity
No prior knowledge required
Online/offline
Online/offline
Online and offline
Multimedia
Multimedia
News items and explanation video
Add ons
Add ons
6 add ons (incl. Future Jump)
Assignment
Assignment
Take home assignment with reflection on role and actions
Wrap-up presentation
Wrap-up presentation
Wrap-up by expert

Scenario

Radical innovation within ASML. Development of a new EUV chip machine. ASML, a state-of-the-art supplier of, chip machine (photolithography systems) for the semiconductor industry, must decide on its innovation strategy.

You and your fellow managers must decide on ASML’s innovation strategy. How to allocate your resources? What innovation strategy to implement? How to weigh your personal interests against company interests?

Dilemma

Where do you get the resources for innovation? Do you get it from the old cash-cow the PAS 5500 system or do you get it from your newer less profitable Twinscan machine?

Learning goals

Innovation management, radical/incremental, S-curve, first-to-market, communities of practice, organizational structure (matrix organization), resource allocation/ personnel scarcity, phase gate model, R&D Policy, risk mitigation, patenting, group think, negotiation strategy (Harvard principles of negotiation)

Dilemma's and questions in this edu-game

  • Are you committed to innovation or not?
  • How do you distribute the resources if all parties represent a different interest?
  • How do you use your team (composition and diversity) for optimal innovation results?
  • Do you work closely with a customer? And what are the consequences in the area of competition? Might it constrain competition?
  • Are you committed to marketing and customer service or innovation?
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Work Council

# players
# players
5-10 per game
# scenarios
# scenarios
3 scenarios
Duration
Duration
15 minutes
Complexity
Complexity
No prior knowledge required
Online/offline
Online/offline
Online and offline
Multimedia
Multimedia
News items
Add ons
Add ons
7 add ons
Assignment
Assignment
Take home assignment with reflection on role and actions
Wrap-up presentation
Wrap-up presentation
Wrap-up by expert and trainer

Scenario

Nursing home “Onder de bogen” for people with disabilities is faced with 3 Work council dilemmas.

Dilemma

How do you, as part of the work council (OR), deal with the various interests within a work council, organization and management?

Learning goals

Work Council/Staff representation, Work Council Act – Dutch Civil Law (Labour Law), Collective labour agreement (CLA), Absenteeism, Trade union (FNV)

Dilemma's and questions in this edu-game

  • Application procedure: Management hires a new HRM manager without following the application protocol or seeking the agreement of the Work Council.
  • Sick leave: The new HRM manager wants to reduce absenteeism by enforcing a strict policy.
  • Overtime: The majority of employees want to work overtime. At the same time, a minority of personnel doesn’t want to work overtime. However, the self-managing teams do not give the minority a chance to make their case. Management doesn’t want to get involved. What does the Work Council do?

    NB. The simulation consists of three short stand-alone simulation games that allow players, after a short analysis by the coach, to practice and put into practice what they have learned in the next game.
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Health Care Management

# players
# players
6-35 per game
# scenarios
# scenarios
3 scenarios
Duration
Duration
60 minutes
Complexity
Complexity
General overview of Dutch Healthcare
Online/offline
Online/offline
Online and offline
Multimedia
Multimedia
News items and explanation video
Add ons
Add ons
6 add ons (incl. Crisis)
Assignment
Assignment
Take home assignment with reflection on role and actions
Wrap-up presentation
Wrap-up presentation
Crisis, Press conference and Wrap up by expert

Scenario

How do you come to a choice between different safety interests of patients, employees, external security or digital security? How do you translate this into policy with a limited budget for measures?

Dilemma

How do you organize your team and individual effort? How to deal with external stakeholders, expectations of your teammates and your personal goals?

Learning goals

Governance and strategy, health care management, decentralization of care, working with (institutional) layers, safety and security in the hospital (more than patient safety), distributed power and actor dependency, decision making, uncertainty, negotiation strategy (Harvard principles of negotiation).

Dilemma's and questions in this edu-game

  • How do you weigh different types of safety?
  • Which measures address relevant safety risks and how do you distribute the budget?
  • How do you deal with the Sunk cost fallacy?
  • Gain insight into processes and the duration and timing of decision-making. (For example, how the time associated with research can have costs and effects on decision-making.)
  • How do you deal with administrative decision-making and navigate between the interests of parties?

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Merger, Acquisition (M&A) and Fiscal advice

# players
# players
6-12 per game
# scenarios
# scenarios
1 scenarios
Duration
Duration
90 minutes
Complexity
Complexity
Knowledge of Dutch tax law
Online/offline
Online/offline
Online and offline
Multimedia
Multimedia
News items and explanation video
Add ons
Add ons
7 add ons
Assignment
Assignment
Risk assessment and fiscal & negotiation implications
Wrap-up presentation
Wrap-up presentation
Wrap-up by expert

Scenario

A merger between Hip Brewery and Stabile Brauerei.

Dilemma

Hip Brewerey sails close to the wind in terms of tax payments. Stabile Brauerei is a fiscally conservative firm. How do you come to a Letter of Intent (LOI) about a merger or sale together?

Learning goals

(International) Merger & Acquisition (M&A), Structuring, Financing, Due diligence, Taxes, Transfer Tax, VAT, compensable loss, Tax Authority, negotiation strategy (Harvard principles of negotiation).

Dilemma's and questions in this edu-game

  • How do you reach an agreement when one party wants a non-binding (open) Letter-of-Intent (LOI) and the other party focuses on a legally binding Letter-of-Intent (LOI) which covers every eventuality?
  • Who gets what position within the company after a merger or sale?
  • What tax risks for yourself and the other party do you recognize and how do you cover them?
  • Where does the corporate head-office go; to the Netherlands or Germany? (What would the tax implications be?).
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Strategic Management

# players
# players
5-10 per game
# scenarios
# scenarios
1 scenarios
Duration
Duration
60 minutes
Complexity
Complexity
No prior knowledge required
Online/offline
Online/offline
Online and offline
Multimedia
Multimedia
News items and explanation video
Add ons
Add ons
6 add ons
Assignment
Assignment
Take home assignment with reflection on role and actions
Wrap-up presentation
Wrap-up presentation
Wrap-up by expert

Scenario

The company’s management team must decide on the company’s strategy and resource allocation. Take up your role in the management team. How to allocate your resources? How to weigh your personal interests against company interests?

Dilemma

How to align different interests and formulate company strategy? Where do you get the resources for innovation?

Learning goals

Change management, organization theory, project management, organization structure, communities of practice, organizational structure (matrix organization), resource allocation/ personnel scarcity, risk mitigation, patenting, group think, negotiation strategy (Harvard principles of negotiation)

Dilemma's and questions in this edu-game

  • What is het impact of a Matrix structure on decision-making?
  • How do you distribute the resources if all parties represent a different interest?
  • How do you use your team (composition and diversity) for optimal (innovation) results?
  • Are you able to adjust and redirect company strategy? Are you able to achieve a majority in the management team?
  • Are you committed to marketing and customer service or innovation?
  • How can you work together as a team
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International Teamwork

# players
# players
4-6 per game
# scenarios
# scenarios
1 scenario
Duration
Duration
60 minutes
Complexity
Complexity
No prior knowledge required
Online/offline
Online/offline
Online (in development) and offline
Multimedia
Multimedia
News items and explanation video
Add ons
Add ons
6 add ons (incl. Team Charter Canvas, Team Charter with tips)
Assignment
Assignment
Take home assignment with reflection on role and actions
Wrap-up presentation
Wrap-up presentation
Wrap-up by teacher and team

Scenario

How do you organize your team and individual effort? How to deal with external stakeholders, expectations of your teammates and your personal goals?

Dilemma

How do you organize your team and individual effort? How to deal with external stakeholders, expectations of your teammates and your personal goals?

Learning goals

Organizing teamwork, team dynamics, inter-cultural skills, conflict management skills, leadership styles, asking for help, work/life balance, diversity in personalities and working styles, negotiation strategy (Harvard principles of negotiation).

Dilemma's and questions in this edu-game

  • How can personality types collide within a project and how do you deal with it?
  • How do you achieve an effective collaboration in a team?
  • Do you recognize which aspects of a group project lead to conflict and how do you resolve those conflicts?
  • What role does culture play in cooperation in international teams?
  • How do you deal with deadlines and time pressure?
  • How do you deal with conflicting interests between Company and Academic coaches?
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Self Employed Professional/entrepreneur Awareness & Worklife balance

# players
# players
4-6 per game
# scenarios
# scenarios
1 scenario
Duration
Duration
60 minutes
Complexity
Complexity
No prior knowledge required
Online/offline
Online/offline
Online (in development) and offline
Multimedia
Multimedia
News items and explanation video
Add ons
Add ons
6 add ons (incl. Team Charter Canvas, Team Charter with tips)
Assignment
Assignment
Take home assignment with reflection on role and actions
Wrap-up presentation
Wrap-up presentation
Wrap-up by teacher and team

Scenario

A self-employed professional of entrepreneur has to deal with the ongoing tensions between work and private life. How do you achieve a healthy balance?

Dilemma

What practical problems and challenges do you encounter as a self-employed person or entrepreneur?

Dilemma's and questions in this edu-game

  • How do you maintain a healthy balance between work time and private time in a reality where they are so closely intertwined?
  • How do you make the trade-off work time and private time? Between out-of-pocket costs and private time?
  • How do you deal with unexpected expenses?
  • How do you build buffers for potential setbacks?
  • How do you draw up a liquidity plan? Don't forget the taxes!?

Practice before it gets real

Discussion

Real Life Learning Scenario's

Learn by practice to facilitate long-term learning and enthuse. Creates a safe learning experience and a tool to structure decision making. Reveal pitfalls or create awareness about the topic.

Video lessons

Multimedia Enriched Simulations

Supported and enriched with stakeholder video’s that bring the scenario to life. Varying lengths and amount of simulation modules possible.

Format

Flexible Format

From generic to client- and sector specific simulations, with the possibility to use your own case as basis for the entire simulation. Allows for solo use ánd larger group use.

Immersive Simulations For...

Universities

Universities

Looking to prepare students for real-life professional situations? Our simulations provide immersion and a safe learning experience.

Companies

Companies

Prepare your employees for complex issues prevalent in your line of work and build their on the job competencies.

Trainers

Trainers

Want to get the most out of a training? Enrich your training before or afterwards with interactive scenario’s tailored to your needs.

Our clients

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‘Like no other teaching method, the GRIP Innovation Management about ASML game ensures that students understand the depth of the challenges of managing innovation, as well as their interrelations – the course's topics really sink in.’

Professor dr. Wilfred Dolfsma

professor of Business Management & Organization | Wageningen University & Research

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‘The Dilemma Edu-Game (Innovation Game) has enhanced students’ learning experience by offering our students great opportunities to apply key concepts, theories, and models learnt from the lectures in a real-world and highly dynamic setting. The developing team has offered excellent support throughout the design and delivery of the session by tailoring the game’s format and content according to the subject area and characteristics of the student body and providing essential training for the teaching staff involved’

Dr Kun Fu

MSc Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management Loughborough University London | Programme manager and senior lecturer

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‘GRIP gives me good insight into what really matters in the Works Council.’

Rob van Etten

Partner OR-coach.nl

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"The GRIP team has developed a great educational and fun educational game for our Health Care Management programme, with an excellent eye for students' gaming and learning experience. It was a please working with the development team; short lines, pro-actively thinking while taking into account our wishes and objectives, and a drive to achieve the best end result."

Dr. Jan-Willem Weenink

Program director Health Care Management. Erasmus School of Health Policy & Management (ESHPM) | Health Care Governance (HCG)

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"The Online GRIP Turnaround Edu-Simulation Game is an enrichment for students who want to experience theory in practice. A dynamic simulation, with many lessons about entrepreneurship under severe adverse financial conditions (imminent bankruptcy), negotiating and learning to deal with time pressure."

Prof. dr. J.A.A. Adriaanse

Partner at BFI Dispute and Investigation Services | Full Professor of Turnaround Management at Leiden University

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"A great tax 'game' in which you get an opportunity to be in the shoes of a tax director, president/majority shareholder or CFO. Very realistic and a huge eye opener. In addition to fiscal law, you get a good insight into the dynamics of a merger or acquisition process and all the interests involved."

Dr. Jeroen van Strien

Partner PKF Wallast – Head department professional (tax) bureau | Professor Tax/ Fiscal Law Radboud University & VU University Amsterdam

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"I am happy to use this simulation, as participants are effectively introduced to the dynamics of stakeholder management in a turnaround process. Projecting yourself in the role of a special management banker or the tax authorities provides new insights for many advisors."

Erik in 't Groen

Senior Manager Business Restructuring Services at PwC Netherlands

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"Students found the Edu-Game fun to play. Evaluation results show that teams developed more realistic and detailed team charters and guidelines for their team project, than student teams in the preceding year.

Team charters helped teams to increase group efficiency and lower the likelihood of team conflicts. Overall, team satisfaction scores were higher than in previous years."

Dr. René Olie

Academic Director MSc International Management-CEMS at Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University

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"My goal for the firefighting event was to introduce the participants to the new national specialism. By using this edu-simulation this was much more interactive than it would have been otherwise and therefore certainly successful."

Ing. Jan Jacob

Chairman Department Incident Control of Hazardous Substances | Fire Department Netherlands

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"In our education, we regularly dicuss the challenges associated with governance and steering in health care; especially where different forms of knowledge coexist and stakeholders make different value considerations. Knowing these challenges is one thing; understanding its politics is even more important. To make the latter possible, we have developed the GRIP game 'care indicators' in collaboration with the GRIP Team. It guarantees a very active, fun and sometimes frustrating experience of what we have previously – focusing on the underlying theory – discussed."

Dr. Martijn Felder

Assistant Professor at Erasmus School of Health Policy & Management | Health Care Governance (HCG)

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"I enjoy working with GRIP. The fact that in the crisis simulation one can actively influence the course of the scenario makes it fun and educational at the same time. It is an effective simulation for healthcare managers to reflect on their own leadership and decision-making style. It provides sufficient material for reflection and learning about crisis situations and one's own leadership role in a safe environment."

Dr. Maarten Janssen

Program director MHBA Erasmus Centrum voor Zorgbestuur | Executive Master of Health Business Administration Erasmus University (MHBA)

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"As a member of the Works Council you are often thrown in at the deep end: from day one you are confronted with issues in your company that immediately require a balanced opinion. GRIP OR offers you the opportunity to practice with a wide range of real-life company issues."

Drs. Hans Hautvast

Coach and Trainer | Managing Consultant at OR-Coach.nl

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"The GRIP Work Council Simulation Game teaches participants to make choices in an active environment and deal with entrepreneurship, time pressure and negotiation."

Drs. Ernst Taris

Senior Coach and Trainer

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"The GRIP Startersgame shows very effectively how you can use serious edu-gamification to let starting entrepreneurs experience, already in their orientation phase, what entrepreneurship means for your work-live balance and finances. I applaud this since the better prepared and well-considered people are in taking that step towards entrepreneurship, the better their chances of success."

Saïd Akdim

Projectdirector InnovationLab Chamber of Commerce

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"The GRIP TMA case study was an engaging, interactive and accessible exercise that served as a challenging, yet valuable introduction to my course on Corporate Insolvency. I thoroughly recommend the blended format and structure of the case study for large and small groups where a "hands on" approach is needed."

Dr. Keith Pond

EOCCS Director at EFMD

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"In the beginning of our project, we all discussed what our strengths were, how committed we were and if we were all on the same page in terms of the grade and outcomes that we wanted. The simulation game that took place at the beginning of the course immensely helped us to have an open en truthful discussion."

Saagar Doshi

MSc in Management student

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