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Global Business Game - CIO Simulation

Vak
2024-2025

Admission requirements

None

Description

Kick off course: a first general acquaintance with managing a company by playing a management simulation game.

Course objectives

In this course, students will actively participate in a business game to become acquainted with managing a company. After this short course students will be able to:

  • explain what are the key activities and key management roles related to IT in a typical company

  • describe challenges experienced by people in those roles

  • analyse common management situations and propose courses of action to resolve typical management challenges

  • experience your role as IT consultant to advice organizations

  • experience the ‘modern way of working’ in current organizations

Apart from these learning goals, students will experience team dynamics in situations of high-pressure decision making.

Timetable

In MyTimetable, you can find all course and programme schedules, allowing you to create your personal timetable. Activities for which you have enrolled via MyStudyMap will automatically appear in your timetable.

Additionally, you can easily link MyTimetable to a calendar app on your phone, and schedule changes will be automatically updated in your calendar. You can also choose to receive email notifications about schedule changes. You can enable notifications in Settings after logging in.

Questions? Watch the video, read the instructions, or contact the ISSC helpdesk.

Note: Joint Degree students from Leiden/Delft need to combine information from both the Leiden and Delft MyTimetables to see a complete schedule. This video explains how to do it.

Mode of instruction

One whole day very interactive Business Game.

Assessment method

Active participation will lead to V (=sufficient).

Reading list

None

Registration

As a student, you are responsible for enrolling on time through MyStudyMap.

In this short video, you can see step-by-step how to enrol for courses in MyStudyMap.
Extensive information about the operation of MyStudyMap can be found here.

There are two enrolment periods per year:

  • Enrolment for the fall opens in July

  • Enrolment for the spring opens in December

See this page for more information about deadlines and enrolling for courses and exams.

Note:

  • It is mandatory to enrol for all activities of a course that you are going to follow.

  • Your enrolment is only complete when you submit your course planning in the ‘Ready for enrolment’ tab by clicking ‘Send’.

  • Not being enrolled for an exam/resit means that you are not allowed to participate in the exam/resit.

Contact

Programme Co-ordinator ms. Esme Caubo

Remarks

Software
Starting from the 2024/2025 academic year, the Faculty of Science will use the software distribution platform Academic Software. Through this platform, you can access the software needed for specific courses in your studies. For some software, your laptop must meet certain system requirements, which will be specified with the software. It is important to install the software before the start of the course. More information about the laptop requirements can be found on the student website.