Strategy and Decision Making

Description

An in depth look at the skills this test will accomplish:

Developing a Plan

• Description: Developing a Plan means coming up with a practical implementation of an idea. The process of developing a plan begins with the creation of a mental model of how the idea can be realized.
• Leading Game: Two-Flags.
  Two-Flags is a strategy game for 2 players in which you need to create and execute your strategic plan while overcoming opponent threats. The game is characterized by the need to be agile in your thinking, as well as the ability to adjust to changing conditions. Players must think about the long-term moves in the game, while making short-term decisions that will help them gain an advantage over their opponent.

Systemic Vision

• Description: Systemic Vision is an analytic process aimed to set out a course of action. It reviews the different factors influencing a given situation, identifies their interrelationships, predicts difficulties and side effects, and offers a way to deal with them.
• Leading Game: Two-Flags.
  Two-Flags is a strategy game for 2 players in which you need to create and execute your strategic plan while overcoming opponent threats. The game is characterized by the need to be agile in your thinking, as well as the ability to adjust to changing conditions. Players must think about the long-term moves in the game, while making short-term decisions that will help them gain an advantage over their opponent.

Resource Management

• Description: Resource management is the practice of planning, scheduling, and allocating resources (people, money, and technology) for a project or program. In essence, it is the process of allocating resources to achieve the greatest organizational value.
• Leading Game: Blocker.
  Blocker is a two-player strategy game. Players are presented with various dilemmas that require them to make decisions, manage their resources, and decide when to act. The key to winning the game is identifying the critical path and using (limited) resources effectively.

Analysis and Deduction

• Description: Analysis and deduction are two important methods of reasoning used to understand and explain the world around us. Analysis involves breaking down a problem into smaller parts in order to gain a better understanding of the whole. Deduction involves using logical reasoning to draw conclusions from given facts.
• Leading Game: PingWins.
  Ping-Wins is a puzzle game requiring analysis abilities. Players must use their logical and problem-solving skills to complete levels. As they progress, the levels become more challenging and more complex. The game is characterized by problems requiring high analytical skills and the identification of anchors that lead to conclusions and finally a solution.

Persistence

• Description: Persistence is the act of continuing to try to do something even when it is hard or discouraging. It is the quality of not giving up in the face of adversity and of continuing to strive for a goal despite any obstacles.
• Leading Game: Move-It.
  Move-It is a puzzle game. In the game, the player is presented with challenges of increasing difficulty and must identify the set of moves that will lead to a solution. Despite the simple rules of the game, the levels of the game are challenging and stimulate thinking about how to solve problems. The game is characterized by having one central factor that we must find to reach a solution. We call this factor the Core of the Problem.