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This Italian SME is the result of a combination of informatics and management/business engineering. The company was established in 2005 and they have become in a short time expert in designing and developing simulation tools for the academy and corporate activities. Reflecting the scientific and professional experience of the founders, the team is characterized by a high level of technical background, flexibility, and capacity of innovation.

They design and develop innovative tools for the management simulation that allows reproducing the dynamics and logic of a particular economic scenario: a simulation that projects the participants in a competition, characterized by problem-solving, creativity, strategic analysis, and decision making. These tools are "unconventional”, intuitive, dynamic and engaging that best represent the paradigm of “learning by doing "and" learning by thinking".

In detail the Italian company has developed these simulation tools:
- Business game: a team game consisting of training tools for management simulations that allow participants to experience the dynamics and logic of different economic scenarios. The simulations put participants into a competitive situation and they have to use all their problem solving, creativity, strategic analysis, and decision-making skills in order to win.

- Web in basket: it is an innovative platform, for the management of recruitment/assessment procedures in line with the natural evolution of Digital Transformation in the company. With respect to the classic in basket paper-based documents, the user follows typical situations of a manager with real-time interactions, managing organizational meetings, replying to emails, activating networking activities, analyzing and elaborating documents, interacting with video-conferences. Human resources can also develop a quality analysis, investigating skills areas of the individual that are missed by traditional selection methods.

- Skillgame: it is a web-based system for competency evaluation that allows, in a simple and quick way, to achieve hard-skill competency rating based on specific thematic areas of business interest. It can be integrated into the company site and social network pages.

The Italian company is looking for international partners that want to use the products offered in order to carry out an assessment and/or recruiting activities in a cheap and smart way under license agreements. The company is also looking for intermediaries that will represent to the end-users the tools offered under commercial agency agreements.

Advantages & innovations

The tools offered have the following advantages: - flexibility, as the platform allows a high degree of customization of the business game. In fact, based on the specific needs of clients, it is possible to configure the competitive scenario, strategic variables, the measurement system of performance indicators, the economic parameters, the number of rounds, and much more. - Efficiency and tools customization. The tools can be applied to heterogeneous groups of people and to different specific working situations Furthermore it is a cheap tool for the companies' assessment activities. - User-friendly web interface. The web interface is designed to be easily use, eye-catching, personalized and equipped with all the main tools (report, calculator, info, etc.). - Continuous platform innovation. The company boasts a collaboration with partners of international relevance such as Manpower, Adecco, E&Y, Leroy Merlin, Unicredit, Simens, NTTdata. These experiences have improved the quality of the products but also stimulated the addition of innovative technological elements to the company's platform. Otherwise, the innovative aspects are: - powerful simulator. The logical structure of each simulation game is constituted by a set of strategic levers (input) and by a set of logical-mathematical relations (output) calculated by the simulator. It offers a near-reality experience that can't be achieved with any other instrument and it is considered as a real substitute to the classic interview in recruitment procedures.

Stage of development

ITALY

Partner sought

Regarding the license agreements, the company is looking for partners for both corporate and academic levels, such as recruitment professionals and agencies, educational private or governmental institutes, trainers, etc. interested in using its tools in order to carry out an assessment and/or recruiting activities. The company is planning its expansion strategy to promote its products in European and international markets under commercial agency agreements. The intermediary should have a good connection to the potential target group.