Program in Interdisciplinary Studies organizes international workshop with BeSu Solutions
(Provided by Program in Interdisciplinary Studies) The Program in Interdisciplinary Studies (PIS) at Si Wan College, National Sun Yat-sen University, organized an international workshop with the entrepreneurs of BeSu Solutions – a German start-up, who shared their experience of developing Plan A – Business Simulation Game via videoconference, and showed the students how play the game and made them reflect on how to draw a business policy.
Plan A – Business Simulation Game lets the students have fun while learning, teaches them about business operation models and logical thinking when discussing a business policy with the team, said one of the founders of BeSu Solutions Robert Kalanke. He said that the game teaches players about the logic and importance of the business policy, makes them reflect on what resources and workforce they need to execute a certain policy and on the role and standpoints of the company’s departments. The players have to make a series of decisions: what are the targets of the company? does the start-up have the potential for development? does it care about the employees’ welfare? does it incorporate new robots and AI technologies? how can cyber attacks affect the company and how to protect the company against them? how to do proper risk management? Conducting detailed policy examination, the students could put into play the specialized knowledge they learned in class and prepare for their future career.
Interactive experience and group cooperation when playing Plan A – Business Simulation Game let the participants experience strategy application and interdepartmental communication. Assistant Professor Cheng-Jung Yang and Associate Professor Ru-Mei Hsieh of PIS emphasized that the workshop - a collaboration with the German start-up was also a promotion of the relations between Taiwan and Germany; they shared how the teaching style of a different culture and students’ choice of strategies and business communication models can affect the results of the game; the workshop was also an opportunity to learn from each other.
A participating student Kuei Hsu said that he is now preparing to establish his own start-up and that the workshop let him realize that the founders need to implement key policies with limited resources and learn more about the connection between policies, for example, about the need for data survey, machine learning, and understanding the role of each department before the introduction of AI. PIS Director Shiau-Yun Lu mentioned that interdisciplinary courses can be taught with games so that the students’ learning is not limited to the definitions explained in the textbook, and what is more, this international exchange and cooperation event let the participants prepare for their future working life through game experience.
(Edited by Public Affairs Division)
Plan A – Business Simulation Game lets the students have fun while learning, teaches them about business operation models and logical thinking when discussing a business policy with the team, said one of the founders of BeSu Solutions Robert Kalanke. He said that the game teaches players about the logic and importance of the business policy, makes them reflect on what resources and workforce they need to execute a certain policy and on the role and standpoints of the company’s departments. The players have to make a series of decisions: what are the targets of the company? does the start-up have the potential for development? does it care about the employees’ welfare? does it incorporate new robots and AI technologies? how can cyber attacks affect the company and how to protect the company against them? how to do proper risk management? Conducting detailed policy examination, the students could put into play the specialized knowledge they learned in class and prepare for their future career.
Interactive experience and group cooperation when playing Plan A – Business Simulation Game let the participants experience strategy application and interdepartmental communication. Assistant Professor Cheng-Jung Yang and Associate Professor Ru-Mei Hsieh of PIS emphasized that the workshop - a collaboration with the German start-up was also a promotion of the relations between Taiwan and Germany; they shared how the teaching style of a different culture and students’ choice of strategies and business communication models can affect the results of the game; the workshop was also an opportunity to learn from each other.
A participating student Kuei Hsu said that he is now preparing to establish his own start-up and that the workshop let him realize that the founders need to implement key policies with limited resources and learn more about the connection between policies, for example, about the need for data survey, machine learning, and understanding the role of each department before the introduction of AI. PIS Director Shiau-Yun Lu mentioned that interdisciplinary courses can be taught with games so that the students’ learning is not limited to the definitions explained in the textbook, and what is more, this international exchange and cooperation event let the participants prepare for their future working life through game experience.
(Edited by Public Affairs Division)
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