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“The only source of sustainable competitive advantage is the capacity of the institution to learn more and faster than it’s competitors” – Arie de Geus, author of “The Living Company” and former Vice President of Group Planning at Royal Dutch/Shell.

In a time of increasingly accelerated change and growing interdependence of institutions, great adaptation power and pro-activity is demanded to face new realities. Institutions need to develop their own capacity to promote and manage their changes.

In other words, it is not exclusively an HR department’s challenge. Institutions as a whole can take over the process of change as they “learn to learn”, as they explore and question restrictions that keep the institution at present performance levels, and in this way “reinvent” themselves to reach the future that they really wish for.

FLIGHT SIMULATORS

Wouldn´t it be interesting if we could understand in a structured fashion, what is the interrelation of factors that generate desired and undesired results, in everyday problems in our institutions?

Simulation permits that. Through the usage of many resources, boards, group dynamics and softwares, we can understand more thoroughly our models of reality, and test their behavior. The principle is time compression, allowing for observation of behavior for a longer period than usual, and space compression, putting elements that in reality are physically distant, and therefore, hard to observe simultaneously, side-by-side.

The simulation is more structured and trustworthy than our natural habit of always trying to mentally simulate what we think will happen, and what to do.
Among the main benefits in using simulators we find:

Learning through experience tends to be more effective;
Homogenizing language and understanding: the activity demands that the team members share their thoughts, their operational understanding about detailed implementation of a strategy or action;
Exploring multiple perspectives and scenarios: exploring issues such as “what if this happened, how would that impact our system?”, analyzing and anticipating actions for improvement and planning;
You can always just start over, without hindering the institution: the learning process shifts from the traditional “do not make a mistake or you will be punished” to “learn by action in a protected environment, reducing implementation risks”.

Flight simulators allow managers to share similar experiences to those lived by airplane pilots, that is, simulating their actions and reactions in an environment for a long time before “piloting” in the real environment.

Flight simulators are softwares that simulate the functioning of a particular system (that can be, for example, a company, a department, the launching of a product in the market), allowing decision making, result analysis, change in strategy and further result analysis. This, without damaging the institution and generating a more thorough understanding of the system´s dynamics

Consentes owns:

Great variety of simulators that can be used in the learning process of your institurion;
Capacity and know-how to build customized simulators for the specific needs of your institution.