Games: process improvement you can play

Games

Short games about the system behind the numbers. Each one gives you the same situation in every round, so the only thing that changes is what you choose.

PlayThe Bed GameTen beds, two wards. Grab, hold back or fix the flow, and find out which shortage was real. PlayThe Morning ReportYour day starts when the report is done. Change how it is made, and owned, and see what the day gives back. PlayThe 64% GameA hundred people, a target of 36. Hit it, then see what the contract and your choices leave behind.

Each game plays in your browser. Nothing you choose is sent, stored or kept: a score lasts as long as the page.

Why games

At work it is hard to tell whether a problem comes from a real shortage or from the way the work flows, because nothing ever happens the same way twice. A game takes that away. You play the same few minutes again with one choice changed, and you can see what that choice did. You do not need to know any statistics or Lean Six Sigma to play.

If a game surprises you, the tracks are reading routes chosen by situation, and the sector pages show the same ideas in eight kinds of organisation.