Business Simulations for Your Teaching
Use our simulations for interdisciplinary teaching at universities, schools and educational institutions.
Your Advantages with Our Business Games
Practice-oriented Teaching
Our portfolio includes 10 business simulations. Through the practical application of theoretical knowledge, TOPSIM simulations enable sustainable learning.
Gamified Learning
With our simulation games you set innovative impulses in teaching and gain deeper insights into the learning behavior of your students.
Web-based Software
TOPSIM Cloud creates more flexibility in the design and implementation, and participants can access the business simulation from anywhere and anytime.
Key Highlights for Teachers
Innovative teaching concepts encourage the active participation and motivation of your seminar participants
TOPSIM Cloud supports your evaluation with reports and diagrams for all teams and each game period.
Individually adjustable features such as the planning tool and corrections make it easier for you to adjust to your target group
How do Participants Rate our Business Games?
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participation was a good investment of time
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had fun during simulation-based seminars
Key Highlights for Participants
Teams learn to analyze the market performance using realistic data and apply their theoretical knowledge practically.
Participants learn to make decisions under a certain level of stress and time-pressure.
Business simulations require working as a team and enhance soft skills.
Get to Know Our Simulations
On Demand – Business Challenge
In Business Challenge participants take on the role of the management of an innovative backpack manufacturer. During the course of the simulation, participants have access to a virtual advisor, who supports them with their decisions and provides evaluation reports. A ranking graph allows each participant or team to compare their success value with the competition.
Topics Covered:
- Business administration terms and indicators
- Entrepreneurial connections
- Marketing basics
- Human resource planning
Management Essentials
This strategic business simulation game simulates the business environment of an outdoor tent production firm and gives users a basic understanding of business management and the business environment. It is ideal for use at one-day events, in introductory classes at universities and in basic business acumen seminars.
Topics Covered:
- Business administration terms and indicators
- Marketing basics
- Staff demands planning
- Accounting tools and reporting
Entrepreneurship Essentials
The entrepreneurial business game simulates founding and managing a surfboard manufacturer, so that participants get to experience all phases of a typical start-up environment. This includes idea generation and development of a business model, creation of a business plan, negotiation for funding with investors and corporate management after the market entry.
Topics Covered:
- Market analysis
- Developing a business plan
- Capital procurement (loans, venture capital)
- Human resource planning and capacity utilisation
TOPSIM – Manufacturing Management
This business game simulates a medium-sized bicycle manufacturer in which players act as the managers, aiming to achieve new growth in the business. They take the operational decisions for procurement, production, marketing and human resources, and must also demonstrate strategic management vision and set the best possible product-market combination for the manufacturing firm.
Topics Covered:
- Fundamentals of strategic management
- Marketing mix
- Human resource planning
- Cost type, cost centre and cost unit accounting
TOPSIM – General Management
This competitive industry simulation game is an advanced management simulation that demonstrates the issues being faced by a medium-sized production firm in the printer sector. With each business year, participants face a growing number of decision areas and learn to deal with a large amount of information in a structured way.
Topics Covered:
- Strategic marketing
- Value-based management
- Product and procurement management
- Investment and capacity planning
Mastering Business Operations
This competitive busines simulation is an advanced management simulation that demonstrates the complexity of managing a production firm in the printer sector. Players learn how to deal with a large amount of information in a structured way, and to assess the implications of their decisions. In this simulation, participants experience the full complexity from the beginning of the seminar.
Topics Covered:
- Strategic marketing
- Value-based management
- Product and procurement management
- Investment and capacity planning
TOPSIM – Scale Up
TOPSIM – Scale Up is a management simulation, in which a company with a long-term solid strategy in a traditional industry reaches its limits. As managing directors of a formerly successful manufacturer of scooters, the participants are facing the challenge to establish a newly developed generation of electric scooters in the market and at the same time develop a sustainable business model.
Topics Covered:
- Corporate Entrepreneurship
- Business model innovation
- Strategic business development
- Strategic marketing
TOPSIM – Going Global
The management simulation depicts six economic regions with different framework conditions. Acting as the executive managers of a washing machine manufacturer, the participants initially work in their home region only. Soon the internationalisation activities of the companies take centre stage.
Topics Covered:
- Mission statement (vision, mission and goals)
- Decisions on expansion
- International marketing mix
- Strategic marketing
Insurance
The competitive insurance business simulation game simulates current challenges using the example of a typical insurance company (direct insurer). The insurance simulation also includes modules on asset management and reinsurance. Players act as the directors, taking the strategic and operational business decisions for up to four classes of insurance (liability, accident, legal expenses and fire insurance).
Topics Covered:
- Risk management
- Sales management
- Asset management
- Marketing mix for the products and customer segments of an insurance company
Universal Banking
The competitive banking simulation game is an advanced, modular, wide-ranging management simulation. Possible focuses: volume and interest-related business, asset management, investment banking, marketing and human resource management. Up to seven different customer groups can be included in the simulation.
Topics Covered:
- Target systems of the banking business
- Basel III
- Lending and deposit-taking with commission-related business and investment banking
- Managerial accounting for bank operations
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