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Homo Simulans: The New Frontier
By Alain Perrot, partner at Value Games
“It is just like in real life” shouted last week one of our U.S. clients, at the end of a memorable Value Race game. The particularity of Value Race is its immersion in a competition environment very close to real life, thanks to a continuous interaction between five teams in competition, and the modeling of a relevant value network for any type of industry.
The infinite game of S&OP
By Alain Perrot, partner at Value Games
During my 30 years’s experience in S&OP implementation, for 20 of them I was privileged to collaborate directly with Andy Coldrick, co-creator with Dick Ling of Breakthrough S&OP, sometiems called IBP. Andy was my master and friend, and among the immense knowledge he taught me on S&OP, the standout message is that S&OP is much more than a process…
On Game
By Alain Perrot, partner at Value Games
When the subject of Game is introduced into a business conversation, it is quite surprising to observe how People have a view on the topic in very black-and-white terms, i.e., are in favour of games or against. You would not see the same emotional reaction on Strategy, which is at the level of Game in terms of intellectual construction. Nobody says he or she is in favour or against Strategy as a subject. How come?
The Strategy Game
By Alain Perrot, partner at Value Games
When we study the different theories about business strategy, it is stunning to notice their excluding vision, with which they consider as a base theorem that the market and their competitors use the same theory. In other words, the base hypothesis is that when you are playing chess, it is supposed the opponent will also play chess while respecting chess rules.
The Machine That Will Change the World
By Alain Perrot, partner at Value Games
In 1990, James P. Womack published “The Machine That Changed the World”, an important book in which this MIT researcher introduced the term Lean to describe with this simple and evocative word the Toyota production system. Lean was first a term used in the motor industry to identify the right balance between fuel and oxidizer.
From Agility to Anti-fragility
By Alain Perrot, partner at Value Games
In this article, I recommend you a WAY that allows going beyond Agility, to go towards what some call Antifragility, and other Velocity, meaning an approach that allows you to get out stronger from a volatile or chaotic situation, in opposition to the resilience simply allowing to recover from a crisis.
The infinite game of learning
By Alain Perrot, partner at Value Games
Learning by nature has always been in the game of preparing the next generation to take the lead, but in a world which is changing faster and faster, conventional learning in classrooms or mentoring on the batllefield, ar not sufficient to take up the challenge.
Value Games in COVID times
By Alain Perrot, partner at Value Games
In a world where there is no more universal truth, and where reason and folly permanently fight with each other, games are the way forward for companies to bring back confidence to their teams by co-creating with them a new narrative towards their purpose. Here is why.
Experiential games: helping build cohesive top management teams
By François Demongeot, partner at Value Games
Mergers and acquisitions, digital transformation, stakeholders’ shifting expectations, are among key trends that have a significant impact on corporate governance. They call for increased cohesion and faster decision-making processes on the part of boards. How can serious games help?
From supply chain to value networks
By Alain Perrot, partner at Value Games
Supply Chain Management has become a must in most multinational corporations; this was not the case twenty years ago when this concept was seen as a major driver for a competitive edge by leaders, a sophisticated and cumbersome exercise by the silent majority, and another consultant fad by others. At that time, some even said « Supply What? ». They are out of the business now. However, the concept is hardly new.