Online simulations for operations courses
 
  • Easy to Learn: Learn how to run it in less than an hour. Polished assignments for undergraduate and graduate courses come with student handouts and teaching notes.
  • Engaging: Our games are competitive and exciting, stimulating student interest in traditional topics they may otherwise consider boring, esoteric, or irrevelent.
  • Educationally valuable: Managing a simulated factory or supply network over a week provides a unique relatively realistic setting to diagnose complex systems and then integrate and apply course concepts.
  • Pedagogically sound: Developed with faculty at leading business schools and structured using principles from experiential learning research.
  • Award Winning: The Production and Management Society (POMS) Wickham Skinner Award for Teaching Innovation, awarded at the 2004 International Meetings.
   
  • Entirely web based: No software to install. Students learn how to play the games right away without lengthy instructions or manuals.
  • No need to change your syllabus or lectures: Because the games focus on traditional course topics and run in the background of the course they require no changes to most course syllabi and almost no lecture time in class.
  • Established: We have provided online course supplements since 1999. Our clients include 24 of Business Week's top 30 US MBA programs and our products have been used by hundreds of institutions in more than 25 countries.
  • Inexpensive: A significant, valuable addition to your course for $15 (Littlefield Technologies) or $20 (Supply Chain Game) per student. An additional small bookstore markup may also apply.
  
         
  Littlefield Technologies is an online game covering introductory operations topics, focusing on capacity, utilization, queueing, inventory control, and lead time management. It was developed by Sunil Kumar, a faculty member at Stanford University and Sam Wood, a former Stanford faculty member who is now the president of Responsive Learning Technologies. They were awarded the 2004 Wickham Skinner Award for Teaching Innovation for their development of Littlefield Technologies.

 

  

The Supply Chain Game is an online game covering supply chain management topics, focusing on forecasting, logistics, advanced inventory control, and supply network design. It was developed with Sunil Chopra at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and Philipp Afeche at the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto.

 

  
         
 


We are Responsive Learning Technologies. We provide online simulations to supplement courses in business and engineering programs.

Our list of customers includes graduate and undergraduate programs in business and in engineering.