TOPSIM – Business Simulations

At the Mercator School of Management – the faculty of business administration of the University of Duisburg-Essen – students of the Bachelor of Business Administration and the Master of Business Education are playing TOPSIM – General Management. Due to the current corona situation, the seminar had to be held completely remote for the first time. In this article, we present the new online concept developed by Stefan de Dios Panal as well as its main challenges and benefits.

We are happy to announce new and improved features for our recently released single-player simulation TOPSIM on Demand – Business Challenge. This brand new version offers even more flexibly for your seminars and minimizes your workload.

Our team is always here to support you for your employee training and organizational development initiatives – and to keep everyone safe and healthy. That is why we have developed the TOPSIM – Safety Concept for upcoming on-site seminars. In this article we would like to demonstrate how we can help you and your organization with our simulation-based seminars.

For over two month no face-to-face lectures took place at the Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University (DHBW) Stuttgart. Every year, 200 simulation-based courses are held for 5,000 students at the Faculty of Business and therefore the university faced a very special challenge. In May, the first virtual simulation-based seminar took place, during which two courses participated in the business simulation TOPSIM – General Management entirely online. In this article, Birgit Zürn and Stephan Kraft share their experience on how an online simulation-based seminar can be conducted.

Like many other universities, the Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Regensburg had to switch to a digital semester. The business simulation needs to be played remote as well – even if it is offline. During the whole semester students from the bachelor Business Administration as well as from the bachelor European Business play TOPSIM – Startup! Production, which today is TOPSIM – Manufacturing Management. In this article, André Philipps shares his experience with offline simulations in distance learning format.