Publish at March 13 2015 Updated May 25 2023
Starting a business is the dream of many. In reality, embarking on this maneuver isn't easy, if you get past the obvious reasons: finances, concept, clientele, etc, etc. Being able to manage on all fronts involves learning and perhaps training... It's a long road to prosperity!
The good news for all budding entrepreneurs is that there are plenty of online tools to help you learn how to run your business stress-free. Thank you virtual reality and serious games... Whether you're a student or a retraining student, running a business in its entirety requires a great many skills. Using a simulator enables you to deal with realistic situations arising in your professional field. Learning by doing has long proved its worth in plunging students into the heart of the matter and enabling them to adopt the right reflexes, a better capacity for analysis and action.
At Praxar Collection, a company specializing in business and management simulation games, the approach is threefold: preparation, enabling a context to be set for each situation; simulation, enabling progress to be made in scenarios that evolve according to the answers given in the game; and finally, evaluation, inviting the instructor to analyze the student's work.
Visual Training software, produced by Serious Factory, draws on the codes of the video game The Sims to recreate professional situations. The game's success is based on immersing players in a real-life world, in which they have to play a precise professional role.
On simureal.fr or simuland.net, several games are available free of charge to users wishing to learn how to manage their business. Human resources, logistics, marketing, accounting, the two sites offer similar solutions.
It's worth noting that these sites are presented more in a playful mode than a pedagogical one: we're talking about playing a game, not taking a course... A logic that's found a lot in simulation, which here is intended to be less formal than a classic distance learning course. Playing to learn, learning by playing: serious gaming still has a bright future ahead of it.
Here's a non-exhaustive list of free-access sites that let you run a business simulation:
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