“HEC Business Game” is a capstone course for 3rd year Bachelor students, which allows them to review and apply the knowledge acquired during their studies in a serious game. A new video (in French) features the course and provides insights into curriculum design and students’ learning experience.

In a real-time business simulation game, students play as muesli manufacturers and have to define and defend their strategy on a dynamic market. Thanks to the suppport of University of Lausanne’s Fund for Pedagogical Innovation (FIP – Fonds de l’Innovation Pédagogique), HEC Business Game has been further extended to cover an additional financial analyst / investor’s role. In this role, students invest in the Muesli manufacturing companies and manage their investment portfolio on a dynamic financial market.

The next round of “HEC Business Game” will take place on February 13-17, 2014! More information is available on Moodle.

We are proud to announce that our three submissions were accepted at the Conference on Information Systems (ICIS):

• Dynamics of IS Adaptation in Multinational Corporations: A New Theoretical Lens (Full research paper, co-authored by Kazem Haki and Christine Legner)
• Designing Capstone Courses in Management Education: Knowledge Activation and Integration Using an ERP-based Simulation Game (Full research paper, co-authored by Christine Legner, Thibault Estier, Hazbi Avdiji and Thomas Boillat) and
• Designing Business Models for Platforms as a Service – Towards a Design Theory (Research-in-progress, co-authored by Andrea Giessmann and Christine Legner).

ICIS is the most prestigious international conference in information systems and will take place from December 15 to 18 in Milano. More information: http://icis2013.aisnet.org/

The BISA research team will present two papers at the European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS) in Utrecht, Netherlands:

• Giessmann Andrea, Fritz Alexander, Caton Simon & Legner Christine: A Method for Simulating Cloud Business Models: A Case Study on Platform as a Service
• Haki Kazem & Legner Christine: Enterprise Architecture Principles in Research and Practice: Insights from an Exploratory Analysis.