LO-Game at European Forum of Logistics Education Stenden 09102014

Welcome to “Legostics”

&

“Legostics management”

• Who are we?

• What are YOU going to do today? (schedule)

• Why Role game simulation?

• A short introduction of LO-GAME

Outline

Henk Roelofs

Senior lecturer Stenden Hogeschool in Emmen

Logistics, Economics, Conceptual Thinking, etc

Drs Econometrics, Kand./Bc Social Geography

Former Projektmanager entrepreneurial projects:

• Action, ActionB, ACTIONC,

• Learning companies,

• SIFE,

• CBC, etc.

Entrepreneur, Founder of LE-Network

(pingpong player )

Steffi Kemper-Mühlenstädt

Assistant Henk Roelofs,

Former project employee ACTIONC

Management assistant LE-Network

Who are we?

Gisella Stap

Junior Marketing & Sales

LE-Network

Schedule:

Why are you here?

to experience a role game simulation

(logistics, operations management)

http://le-network.nl/en/products/simulation-games/lo-game/

Old teaching

• conventional speed

• mono tasking

• linear approaches

• stand alone

• competitive

• passive

• separating learning and playing

• patience in payoff

• reality as context

• technology as foe

New teaching

• twitch speed

• multi tasking

• non linear approaches

• connected

• collaborative

• active

• learning by playing

• instant payoff

• fantasy

• technology as friend

Young people learn on a different way...

Very different nowadays?

4 basic principles for education

• Challenge / Uitdaging– difficult is teasing, moeilijk is spannend,

• Self guiding / Zelfsturing– doing yourself is the best motivation, zelf doen is de beste motivatie

• Relevance / Relevantie– authentic content, authentieke inhoud en werkvormen

• Passion / Passie – seek core elements , zoek de kern

Average Retention RateAverage Retention Rate(After 24 hours)(After 24 hours)

LectureLecture 5%5%ReadingReading 10%10%AV PresentationAV Presentation 20%20%DemonstrationDemonstration 30%30%Discussion GroupDiscussion Group 50%50%Practice by DoingPractice by Doing 75%75%Teaching OthersTeaching Others 90%90%

David Sousa, David Sousa, How the Brain LearnsHow the Brain Learns

Role game: learning by doing

“I hear and I forgetI see and I rememberI do and I understand”

(Confucius)(Confucius)

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+ Hands-on experience has a better and faster effect

+ Anchored in memory and emotions

+ Places people outside their trusted environment

Why a Simulation?

Acquire “competencies”.

Competencies are describedas “knowledge, skills, attitudesand behavior to be successfulin a professional environment

LO-Game – a role game

The method of LE game handles

the starting point:

“Learning by doing”.

You learn from experiences, especially

from bad (wrong) experiences

Good Judgment Comes with Experience, But Experience Comes from Bad Judgment

Why LO-Game

Simulation?

Version

LO-GAME 2(LO-Game 1 is 1 product)

Version 2

Roles version 2Roles in later, more complex versions

+ Customers

+ Logistic Manager + assistent(s)

+ Production Dept 1 + assistent(s)

+ Production Dept 2 + assistent(s)

+ Production Dept 3 + assistent(s)

+ Dept Raw Materials + assistent(s)

+ Dept Finished Product +assistent(s)

+Sales director

+Administration, Book keeping

+Purchase processes

+Several suppliers

+World market raw materials

+World market finished products

Order acceptance point of time:Quantity:

Delivery time:

Signature:

1 Order to Department 1 by Logistics Manager 13 Order to department 3 byLogistics Manager

2 Receipt of order by Department 1 14 Receipt of order by Department 3

3 Issue material order department by Department 15 Issue material order department 3 by DepartmentRaw Materials Raw Materials

4 Start production Department 1 16 Start production Department 3

5 Production finished Department 1, transport to 17 Production finished Department 3, transport towork in progress 1 warehouse finished products

6 Work in progress 1, check order progres 18 Receipt finished product by Warehouse Finished Porductsby Logistics Manager

7 Order to department 2 by 19 Order form to Logistics ManagerLogistics Manager

8 Receipt of order by Department 2

20 Order form from Logistics Manager to Warehouse Finished

9 Issue material order department 2 by Department ProductsRaw Materials Despatch order by Warehouse Finished Products

10 Start production Department 2 Delivery to Customer by Warehouse Finished Products

11 Production finished Department 2, transport to 21 Receipt of the products by Customerwork in progress 2

22 Order form to Logistics Manager

12 Work in progress 2, check order progres by Warehouse Finished Productsby Logistics Manager

Towertype:

Ordernr.:

Kraljic Matrix 

Examples of these type of organizations

Learning experiences

"Experience shows that when people are put together in a new different environment, their responses can not be

predicted for a 100%"

                                                                                     John de Mol, the man who invented Big Brother (TV)

LO-Game is never the same

We hope you enjoyed playing LO-Game

LO-Game is available in several versions , with increased complexity

See www.LE-Network.nl