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Rapid Simulation Development Excel Adobe Flash Excel

Effective Solutions Across Multiple EnvironmentsAICC Meetings

January 30, 2008

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The strongest and most effective way to learn from experience, besides life itself, is to use a well-designed imitation of reality.

Rehearse future

success through world-class business simulations.

Fail forward.

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Session Objectives

This session will help you to:

– Describe the “when” and “why” of Complex Branching Immersive Learning Simulations for creating Engaged Learners

– “Wheels in Motion” - Going from Excel to Flash in mapping out complex decision trees - Walking the Timeline

– FlashExcel Simulation as an Imitation of REALITY – embedding real-life tools within the simulation

– Sim as a methodology for capturing and deploying Tacit Knowledge

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Why Simulation?

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What is a Humentum Simulation?

Humentum Simulations:

Base story line and decisions on desired experience / performance objectives

Use branching to guide story line events

Provide immediate decision feedback through story line events

Provide detailed decision feedback, both evaluative and variable-based

Employ multiple decision types

Provide Experiences:

• Learning-by-doing/Experiential learning

• Experience how decisions impact the broader team and organization in a risk-free environment

• “What if” scenarios foster and develop analytical skills and Problem Solving techniques

• Demonstrates impact of decisions in a compressed timeframe

• A context for participants to share experiences / learn with colleagues

• Using the power of storytelling to provide an immersive, experiential exercise

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Simulations In Five Steps

1. Design Scorecard: Goals and Boundaries

2. Establish Storyline/Events: Challenges

3. Create Cast & Background: Context

4. Enable Triggering: Consequences

5. Apply Scoring: Outcomes

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#4: Enabling Triggering - ”Walking down the Timeline”

... maintain Choice Option action =>

reaction dependency in convenient familiar editing enviroment ...

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Platform Architecture

Access Database

Excel Templates

Media Assets

FlashExecutable

-JPG

-MP3

-MPG

-SWF

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Platform Architecture

Access Database

Excel Templates

FlashExecutable

Proof

Flow

Score

Media

Draft

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Platform Architecture

Excel Templates

Proof

Flow

Score

Media

Draft • Initial pass – optimal path / stream of consciousness

• Text from coded simulation – distribute for editing

• Matrix of decisions and events – determine triggering

• Choices with point values – map to scorecard items

• Graphics, audio, video, animation – identify by filename

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Live Data Integration

External Live Data:Excel Worksheets

• Real-time Dashboard

• Quantitative Analysis

• Event Triggering

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Live Data Integration

External Live Data:Excel Worksheets

• Real-time Dashboard

• Quantitative Analysis

• Event Triggering

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• Contact:Ken Spero(215) 565-5598Ken.Spero@Humentum.net

• Visit:www.HUMENTUM.net

• To learn more about our sim approach, play @:www.trackbuilder.net/TBAIwww.trackbuilder.net/TBSAwww.trackbuilder.net/TBGS

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