Current projects
Some of the current projects can be seen below.
The tender team aims for outstanding collaboration
The tender team aims for outstanding collaboration (BAM)
Description:
That is, of course, the ambition. The central question is: How will we fulfill the EMVI criterion Collaboration? You are still in the tender process. The outcome is not yet known.
Characteristics:
In a tailor-made simulation, you will work on the content of the assignment (pushing the boundaries). At the same time, you will experience the collective ambition for collaboration, which will also help your team grow. You will then translate this experience into reviewing the plan of approach.
BAM
From milestone to milestone
From milestone to milestone
(Schiphol)
Description
Seven partners facing an enormous challenge together. Under time pressure, they must accomplish a complex, risky task at Schiphol. The knowledge and experience are in place! Establishing collaboration on time is crucial.
Characteristics
Prior to each milestone, you navigate the gray areas together. Playfully, roles, interdependencies, and responsibilities become crystal clear. Not immediately. At times, it's truly suspenseful... yet, simultaneously, the connection, understanding, and solidarity grow.
Mainstation Schiphol Inkeer Centrum 50/10kV, Schiphol
Building an ecosystem
Building an ecosystem
(Oosterhoff groep)
Description:
A wonderful question, to build an ecosystem together in a serious game. But beware, turning your own company into an ecosystem, what does that look like? What will you do differently than now?
Characteristics
You step into a simulated situation that eerily resembles your own daily work. Just slightly different. Meanwhile, you're playfully challenged to explore the space to collaboratively shape the ecosystem that is becoming clearer in your minds.
Oosterhoff groep
Long-term maintenance
requires an integrated approach
Long-term maintenance
(Provincie Zuid-Holland)
Description:
Sustainability ambitions and societal obligations, along with regulations, demand a different approach to maintenance. New methods and techniques have put responsible and results-oriented asset management on the map. What is the impact of this on attitudes and behaviors, as well as on the division of roles?
Characteristics
Step into a simulated area together to playfully discover how you, as Owner and Operator, will jointly manage asset management in 2024 for years to come. What this means for role distribution, joint investments, work agreements, and interdependencies.
Provincie Zuid-Holland
Do you prioritize education as much as research within the university?
- LOL Simulation
LOL simulation
(UvA, VU)
Description
For a day, you have the opportunity to firmly establish education within a fictitious university. This requires (personal) leadership. Are you and your team capable of fulfilling your mission?
Characteristics
You quickly encounter ingrained patterns, the influence of power, and established frameworks. Constantly shifting positions, you come into contact with various key figures and influencers. How can you, with your personality and personal background, given your assignment, succeed in a complex, political environment?
UvA, VU
Completed projects
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Pharmacy
Healthcare
Water Board
Construction
Coming to the Clents table well-prepared as a tender team
Well prepared by client
(BAM)
Description:
A wonderful question that you're eager to win. To achieve this, you must deliver a top performance in a short time. How are you positioned, where are your internal challenges as a team? And how do you present yourselves at the client's table? A challenge in content, customer relationship, and team formation. These challenges you have successfully overcome. Congratulations on the assignment.
Characteristics
In a tailor-made simulation, you will undergo 3 challenges. Each challenge has a deadline and presents an increase in complexity. With the idea that if you successfully complete those challenges, you lay a solid foundation for a top performance.
BAM
Challenging Client and Contractor on the risky aspects of the upcoming project
Challenging Client and Contractor (Gelderland)
Description
After a successful tender, you want to start off on the right foot with the client immediately. Going through the project together in advance, to experience what the project demands in terms of collaboration and role distribution.
Characteristics
In a tailor-made simulation, you will go through a series of challenges where you have serious dilemmas to solve. Each challenge has layers of role distribution, interests, attitudes, and behaviors. Just when you think you're almost there, you encounter a game-changer. Just like in real life. You could call it the "proof of the pudding."
Province of Gelderland
Setting up periodic measurements, benchmark sessions, and interventions
Periodic measurements
(Hof van Holland)
Description:
After an intense start with a serious game, you've chosen to firmly prioritize collaboration throughout the project.
Characteristics
Regularly utilize measurements to maintain focus on collaboration without slackening. Not waiting until something goes wrong, but actively seeking dialogue with each other. Engage in conversations with diverse formats and specific interventions, not shying away from addressing the elephant in the room.
Hof van Holland
Ensuring smooth start-up of the construction team through a simulated setting
Smooth start
(Municipality of Amsterdam)
Description:
You only get one chance to start. You've opted for a serious game. Ultimately, this project has become an exemplary project for Construction Teams. Congratulations!
Characteristics
Simulating the project together beforehand, essentially experiencing it in advance. And in your case, turning the IPM roles inside out. You've had to face risky situations presented from various perspectives. Then, keeping collaboration on the agenda with the cooperation monitor.
Construction team game/IJpleinveer/
Municipality Amsterdam
Implementing sustainability
Implementing sustainability
(BAM and Schiphol)
Description
Addressing a very current theme head-on with a broad group of stakeholders, experienced through a mini-game. What are we saying versus what are we actually doing? Like all mini-games, a theme is central, and we delve into behaviors and attitudes that reinforce or hinder developments.
Characteristics
Together, going through intentions, ambitions, desires, and experiences so far in various challenges. Thus, gaining a good understanding of what is needed to accelerate Sustainability together even further. Playfully establishing an initial frame of reference. A frontrunner group, which naturally emerged during the mini-game, takes action based on this.
BAM/ Schiphol
Implementing long-term maintenance
Implementing long-term maintenance (BAM/ Schiphol)
Description:
Through a mini-game, we navigate through the MJOP (Multi-Year Maintenance Plan) process, thus mapping out the noise in role distribution. Like all mini-games, a theme is central, and we take excursions into behaviors and attitudes that either enhance or hinder development.
Characteristics
Who is leading when, who needs what from whom, what steps are missing, where is the delay occurring... gradually, a sketch of a new process map emerged. Once again, a group of drivers is formed to further develop the initial sketch.
BAM/ Schiphol
Education
Are you the future school leader at one of our primary schools?
Future school leader
(Lucas Education PO)
Description:
For a day, stepping into the shoes of a school leader. You take over from the previous school leader. In short, you're stepping onto a moving train and diving right in. Moreover, you're given a significant task. What leadership qualities do you demonstrate?
Characteristics
You gain a clear understanding of where you stand in relation to the complexity, hectic pace, and responsibility that characterize the role. "Do I want to grow into this role, or is it not something I should pursue?" For the client, it offers a wonderful insight into all the talents of the organization. But it's also a great opportunity to learn behind the scenes about the candidates. What do we encounter in this assessment that we need to address more broadly within the organization?
Lucas education PO
Discover and experience the entrepreneur within yourself
Young Entrepreneur Adventure
(Calling Education)
Description
As far as we're concerned, this is one of our gems. Playfully, students discover together the many facets of entrepreneurship. In a competitive, pleasant atmosphere, alongside entrepreneurial peers from another school (abroad), you operate as real entrepreneurs with real businesses. We won't say more for now.
Characteristics
For three days straight, we challenge you with tough challenges where sustainability and entrepreneurship take center stage. Game-changers and heavy opposition from experienced professionals demand all the qualities present within your team. Fortunately, there's still a teacher coaching you... will you surprise friend and enemy alike with your solution?
Calling Education
Step into the shoes of the allies and those of the aggressor
D-Day
(Calling Education)
Description:
To enrich education, we develop gamified lessons. This time, we meet in Normandy. You'll discover what it takes for strategic warfare.
Characteristics
In a two-hour lesson, you'll learn a lot about what happened just before D-Day. At certain points, we put you in the shoes of the Germans, and then again in those of the Allies. What decisions would you make given the situation? And which ones were actually made?
Calling Education
Meet the critical figures of the French Revolution
French Revolution
(Calling Education)
Description:
To enrich education, we develop gamified lessons. This time, you're tasked with preventing the French Revolution. You'll discover which forces were decisive... or perhaps they don't stand a chance against you.
Characteristics
In a two-hour lesson, you're transported back in time. You'll meet Richelieu, Le roi, and the Pope... which may not mean much to you now, but will after the lesson. Who will you influence to prevent the Revolution? And how would you like to do that?
Calling Education
Discover and experience what you have to learn from Leonardo
What to learn from Leonardo
(Calling Education)
Description
To enrich education, we develop gamified lessons. This time, you experience the world through the eyes, hands, and feet of the genius Leonardo da Vinci. Suddenly, the world looks very different. Along the way, you'll learn a lot about your own strengths and weaknesses.
Characteristics
In a three-hour lesson, you'll challenge yourself against the benchmark of Leonardo's qualities. Together with students from other school types (!), you'll explore Leonardo's 7 principles. The winning team is the team that collectively recognizes, understands, and can utilize all the qualities.
Calling Education
Pharmacy
Receiving input from key physicians to better highlight medicine
Input key physicians
Description
You're about to launch a promising medicine onto the market. In such a scenario, leaving nothing to chance is essential.
Characteristics
You invite key stakeholders to an Adboard Game. In a compact game format, you playfully receive a lot of feedback from these stakeholders about expectations, no-goes, and tips. This approach has proven successful in multiple introductions.
Raising awareness of the impact of new regulations
Awareness of impact of new regulations
Description
Recent regulations have become stricter. It's essential that all employees quickly understand and act accordingly. An initial step with e-learning has been taken, and in the compliance game, we challenge all colleagues to demonstrate their understanding of what is required.
Characteristics
In a compact session, participants navigate through 4 complex situations under time pressure in heterogeneous teams. Each team must have all the required knowledge and experience to reach the finish line within the given time. To truly be compliant, teams must also report periodically and handle unexpected visitors. This allows us to identify gaps in both knowledge and behavior.
Being well-prepared for the launch of a new medicine
Being prepared for the launch of a drug
Description
After years of research and preparation, you've received the green light to bring your promising medicine to the market. You only get one chance to do it right. However, you're not the only party targeting this demographic. The market is fairly saturated. Yet, your medicine deserves top priority. What launch strategy will deliver the most impact in a short time?
Characteristics
In a simulated setting, involving various academic and peripheral hospitals, influential stakeholders, and competitors, you'll discover which strategy holds the most promise. You'll go through two, maximum three scenarios. In one day, you'll develop a launch strategy, which you'll then fine-tune in practice to successfully launch.
Healthcare
Dual leadership: ward physician and head nurse at the helm together
Dual leadership
(AMC, VU)
Description
You are jointly responsible for the results, quality, and collaboration of a department. In a simulated setting, you are tasked with improving the situation in a department.
Characteristics
What do you demonstrate as a leading couple? Who is responsible for what? Where do your strengths lie? And how do you handle your weaknesses as a leading duo? Acting as a leading duo brings out your development profile clearly.
AMC, VU
Through the eyes of the patient
Through the eyes of the patient
(AMC, VU)
Description
Do healthcare professionals truly understand what a patient with severe, multiple conditions experiences in healthcare?
Characteristics
Participants are professionals from different disciplines within the same hospital. During the simulation, they find themselves in various positions, except their own. And each time, they encounter that one patient... who just can't figure out what's going on and why, leading to undesired consequences. Are you able to guide the patient smoothly through the hospital?
AMC, VU
Making the relocation a success together while the hospital needs to keep running
Relocation hospital
(AMC, VU, Antonius)
Description
Every hospital knows it. Renovating the house while the operation must continue. This requires exceptionally good collaboration, coordination, and decisiveness.
Characteristics
The new layout of the wing to be built still needs to be finalized. A lot of people have opinions on this matter. Moreover, no one should be inconvenienced by the renovation. Your task is to make this happen.
AMC, VU, Antonius hospital
Water boards
Challenging Client and Contractor on the risky aspects of the upcoming project
Challenge Client and Contractor
(WDOD)
Description
Just started as a Construction Team. Both still figuring out what a Construction Team demands from the Client and the Contractor, but also what it requires from the various mirrored IPM roles. How do you begin in such a scenario?
Characteristics
By playfully mapping out the most sensitive and risky collaboration situations. Then, receiving the task to prevent these situations. Gradually, playing with open cards, putting interests and expectations on the table, and from your IPM role, seeking collaboration and daring to hold others accountable for their responsibilities. Both towards the Contractor as well as towards the Client.
WDOD
Selecting new partner for Pumping Stations & Weirs
Choose new partner
(WDOD)
Description
You are facing a significant challenge where you truly seek an executor who thinks and acts as a partner. Besides their technical expertise and project management experience, they need to understand what you're looking for in attitude. They can put it all nicely on paper, but do they deliver in practice?
Characteristics
A responsible, proven method to make clear what each bidding party brings to the table in terms of collaboration. Whether what they put on paper is also seen and experienced at the table. Transparent, clear justification for scoring. For participating parties, a straightforward, transparent way to demonstrate what they bring to the table in terms of collaboration.
WDOD
Fleshing out collaboration on paper
Collaboration on paper
(WDOD)
Description
You aim to win this complex, challenging multi-year contract. But how do you maximize your score on the EMVI criterion collaboration? We assist you in visualizing and experiencing collaboration in such a way that it becomes an honest, genuine, measurable, and well-thought-out plan in your final proposal, based on your own values and norms.
Characteristics
We prefer to discuss exactly what we'll do in a one-on-one conversation
WDOD
How do we assess bidders on the EMVI criterion COLLABORATION
Keys to cooperation
(Waternet)
Description
You're facing a significant challenge where you truly seek an executor who thinks and acts as a partner. Besides their technical expertise and project management experience, they need to understand what you're looking for in attitude. They can put it all nicely on paper, but do they deliver in practice?
Characteristics
A responsible, proven method to make clear what each bidding party brings to the table in terms of collaboration. Whether what they put on paper is also seen and experienced at the table. Transparent, clear justification for scoring. For participating parties, a straightforward, transparent way to demonstrate what they bring to the table in terms of collaboration.
Waternet
Government
Team building and tackling a highly relevant, urgent theme: the rising sea level
Rising sea levels
(Province of Zeeland)
Description
We've brought together the interests of the involved parties and the role the Province plays in a game. With the task of playing with open cards and working towards the most realistic and achievable solution together.
Characteristics
You're divided into teams, and each team represents an important stakeholder. While in reality, you may sometimes be far removed from the party you're now representing. Through the setup of the game, you quickly adopt the interests, desires, and concerns of the party you're representing. You now also experience 'the pain' of some decisions. Will you come to a resolution?
Province of Zeeland
Working in programs
Working in programs
(ILT)
Description
The inspection needs to adopt risk-based working. To do this responsibly and effectively, it has been decided to work in Programs. This has far-reaching consequences for processes, capacity, coordination, role definition, management, etc. Through a simulation, you've been able to experience and explore what is intended.
Characteristics
In a simulation, we've presented an upcoming program in a compact form. Together, you've gone through the first two phases: 1. obtaining approval for the program and 2. launching the program. How smoothly do you adapt to this new way of working? Where does it go smoothly, and where do you encounter challenges? Valuable input for further implementation.
ILT