About the bookAbout the authors and BizGamesForewordPART ONE Seven Obstinate Organizational Challenges01 Challenge 1: Breaking down silos02 Challenge 2: Bursting out of the blah, blah, blah03 Challenge 3: Closing the gap between theory and practice04 Challenge 4: Mitigating the clash between ongoing operations and innovation05 Challenge 5: Untangling complex problems06 Challenge 6: Shaking up the roles we play07 Challenge 7: Bolstering trustworthy relationsPART TWO A Series of Business GameExamples08 The Acid Test: An in-game demonstration of the learning cycle09 Add Value: Know Your Customer10 Align: Implementing organizational values11 Bizzbuilder: How to sustainably grow a professional services business12 Business Branching: Balancing ongoing operations and innovation initiatives13 Changesetter: Leading change14 Changeskills: Implementation of change through a game of guiding questions15 Exploring Change: Mastering change and transformation16 Innovate or Dinosaur: A collaborative innovation game17 Innovation Diamond Learning Game: Creating an innovative mindset18 Leadership development simulations: From the best of intentions to real-life balance19 Linkxs: Team collaboration simulation20 Managing Your Sales Business: Improve results through effective management of your team21 Ocean of Culture: A dialogue tool for developing the organization’s culture22 Pitch Perfect: Reversing the sales process23 PublicProfessional: Know the effect on your communication24 Stakeholder Management: Moving people while building positive relationships25 Strategic Derby: Rapid strategic foresight with instant feedback on potential competitor moves26 Tango: A pivotal element in change to develop leadership culture27 The Meeting Design Game: A dialogue tool to improve the process of planning and designing meetings and conferences28 The Way Forward: Develop and communicate a coherent strategy29 Quick games: Power-up group dynamicsPART THREE A Core Understanding of Business Games30 Structure in business games: Five cores31 Facilitation in business games: A flow between progression and emergence32 The history and future of business games from a Dutch perspective: Understanding and influencing complex systems33 The history and future of business games from a UK perspective: Encourage novel, imaginative and subversive thinking34 The history and future of business games from a Nordic perspective: Towards New Nordic managementIndex