In the winter semester 2021/22, Prof. Dr. Mike Schulze, Vice Dean and Professor of Controlling, Accounting and Financial Management at the CBS International Business School at Campus Mainz, for the first time TOPSIM – Scale Up one. The students benefited from different Master’s degree programmes of CBS in their participation in the simulation game seminar from the mix of different professional orientations and competence profiles of the course participants. Due to compliance with the 3G rule, Prof. Dr. Schulze was able to conduct his courses not only exclusively online, but also in presence or hybrid.
Learning success through interdisciplinarity
For several years now, Prof. Dr. Schulze has been relying on TOPSIM – General Management and TOPSIM – Going Global in his teaching and thus achieves great learning success among the students. He has been interested in TOPSIM – Scale Up since the first beta versions. He is particularly enthusiastic about the current thematic orientation of the simulation game, as the students are very interested in topics such as digitization, business model innovation and sustainability.
In addition, TOPSIM – Scale Up is particularly well suited for cross-course use, as the participants bring different perspectives into the decision-making rounds and the entrepreneurial orientation. Participation in the two courses entitled “Management Simulation Game” was open to three different courses of study intended. One of the two courses took place part-time, where students pursue a professional activity in addition to their studies. This course consisted of the study programs “Strategic Management & Consulting”, “Controlling & Financial Management” and “General Management”.
The second course was aimed at full-time students from the study programs “Human Resources and Change Management”, “Marketing Management” and “General Management”. In the management of the virtual company, the students not only fulfilled the expectations of their different role profiles, but were also able to Interdisciplinary knowledge learn a lot from each other.
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https://www.topsim.com/blog/topsim-scale-up-an-der-cbs-in-mainz/
