SimVenture: Global impact of a business simulation

Posts cover key aspects of the award-winning business simulation – ‘SimVenture’. From the first ideas for the product to how it is now used around the world. Learn about the groundbreaking resource from the people who built it and people who use it.

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Virtual Business Simulation: Advance and test Commercial Business Skills
ByPeter Harrington March 19, 2021April 17, 2021

Virtual business simulation use is on the increase. On-line simulation learning solutions can be a highly effective way to advance and test peoples’ commercial business skills and enterprise acumen. A stand-out business simulation is particularly valuable if you are seeking to find or recruit talented individuals into your organisation. Likewise, such a resource can be…

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So you want to Run a high quality Business Simulation Competition
ByPeter Harrington March 13, 2021April 17, 2021

Business simulation competition event organisation takes time, planning and of course a good simulation platform. Scroll down to view my thoughts on high quality business simulation use, but for now let’s consider the critical thinking issues… Business Simulation Competition event thinking The key question to ask right at the start is: Why run the event?…

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Christmas Thank You
ByPeter Harrington December 18, 2018December 20, 2018

Uncertainty, uncertainty, uncertainty. A year typified by turmoil, trouble and turbulence, nears its end. But with so much upheaval it’s easy to lose sight of the good stuff; what holds us, what connects us and what brings us together. So here is our Christmas message to you…

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Entrepreneurial Stamina Izzard Style
ByPeter Harrington August 15, 2018May 4, 2020

Do you have the entrepreneurial stamina to make your new venture financially sustainable? Do you have the entrepreneurial stamina to turn that new venture into a successful and thriving organisation?

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University Pressure Cooker
ByPeter Harrington February 2, 2018June 12, 2020

For 12 years, and as part of my role at VSL, I’ve been talking with and meeting academics. In total, I’ve phoned, ‘Skyped’, ‘Hungout’ with and/or met at least 10 different people each week for 47 weeks of every year. When you do the maths, that’s over 5,500 conversations. So what’s been learnt?

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Origins of Human Creativity Revealed
ByPeter Harrington October 19, 2017September 18, 2018

Getting to the origins of human creativity is complicated, but earlier this month I gained some fascinating insights when attending another RSA packed-house presentation in London. This event was delivered by David Eagleman (aka Rockstar of Neuroscience) and his co-author, Anthony Brandt. Entitled, ‘What is Creativity’, the 60-minute delivery was slick, revealing (did you know…

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Brexit Wrecks it (For the Moment)
ByPeter Harrington July 22, 2016December 11, 2018

If Brexit wrecks, BRITISH universities can take nothing for granted ever again. The days when we can count on a steady stream of foreign students to shore up the nation’s depleting higher education coffers are gone. Brexit wrecks it…

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How to Make a Fast Entrepreneurial Fortune
ByPeter Harrington January 21, 2016October 6, 2018

If you want to make a fast entrepreneurial fortune today, buy a lottery ticket. But if you possess some skills, resilience, patience and a preparedness to read the rest of this post, there is an alternative…

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