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Business war gaming, corporate war gaming or business wargaming is an adaptation of the art of simulating moves and counter-moves in a commercial setting. In a complex global and competitive world, formulating a plan without testing it against likely external reactions is the equivalent of walking into a battlefield without the right weapons or a plan to win.
A wargame, generally, is a type of strategy game which realistically simulates warfare.A professional wargame, specifically, is a wargame that is used by military organizations to train officers in tactical and strategic decision-making, to test new tactics and strategies, or to predict trends in future conflicts.
Game of War: Guy Debord: 1965: ... Spartan International Vol 3. No. 5, 1971 Arnhem Bridge: ... A Strategic Study of World War Three at Sea, 1984–1994 ...
Chess can be regarded as a form of military simulation (although its precise origins are debated). [6] In more recent times, the forerunner of modern simulations was the Prussian game Kriegsspiel, which appeared around 1811 and is sometimes credited with the Prussian victory in the Franco-Prussian War. [7]
A World War II air warfare simulation game [1] Baltic 1985: Corridor to Berlin: 1984: AppII, C64 A strategy game of hypothetical WW III land combat in Eastern Germany Battle for Normandy: 1982: AppII, ATR, C64, DOS, TRS80 A simulation of the famous World War II battle on D-Day [2] The Battle of Shiloh: 1981: AppII, ATR, TRS80
Diplomacy is a strategic board game created by Allan B. Calhamer in 1954 and released commercially in the United States in 1959. [1] Its main distinctions from most board wargames are its negotiation phases (players spend much of their time forming and betraying alliances with other players and forming beneficial strategies) [2] and the absence of dice and other game elements that produce ...
The Cold War provided fuel for many games that attempted to show what a non-nuclear (or, in a very few cases, nuclear) World War III would be like, moving from a re-creation to a predictive model in the process. Fantasy and science fiction subjects are sometimes not considered wargames because there is nothing in the real world to model ...
Often, the term "business simulation" is used with the same meaning. A business game is defined as "a game with a business environment that can lead to one or both of the following results: the training of players in business skills (hard and/or soft), or the evaluation of players' performances (quantitatively and/or qualitatively)". [1]