What is a dynamic strategic simulation or war-game?
A lot of us play Age of Empires, Settlers, or other strategy games on our computers. Most of us also know that the army originally developed some interactive games, computer-based or otherwise, to simulate possible conflicts and to best prepare for them. But what few of us know is that war-games are played by serious business people as a means to simulate possible business scenarios and to gain insights into complex problems, and that Booz Allen has gained for many years, amongst its other strategy offerings, a strong reputation for creating such games. The concept is roughly based on the following: five teams are created, mixing people from different schools who never had contact with one another before. Four teams play as competing companies – in our case the major mobile network operators (MNOs) in Germany whose challenge is to establish their supremacy as providers of content using the recently introduced UMTS technology, which allows never-before-seen data transfer rates to cell p
