{"id":792,"date":"2006-03-22T09:34:56","date_gmt":"2006-03-22T14:34:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=792"},"modified":"2006-03-26T09:07:07","modified_gmt":"2006-03-26T14:07:07","slug":"corporate-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=792","title":{"rendered":"Corporate Games"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s a short article on BusinessWeek<\/em>, “On-The-Job Gaming” (Link)<\/a>, that’s mildly interesting. From the piece:<\/p>\n

“Video games teach resource management, collaboration, critical thinking, and tolerance for failure,” says Ben Sawyer, who runs Digitalmill Inc., a game consultancy in Portland, Me..<\/p>\n

The market for corporate training games is small but it’s growing fast. Sawyer estimates that such games make up 15% of the “serious,” or nonentertainment market, which also includes educational and medical training products. Over the next five years, Sawyer sees the serious-games market more than doubling, to $100 million, with trainers accounting for nearly a third of that.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

With all the talk about avian flu and people hunkering down for weeks isolated from the world, I’ve been wondering how these kinds of games and tele-education are progressing. This doesn’t really answer that, but it does reinforce the thought.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There’s a short article on BusinessWeek, “On-The-Job Gaming” (Link), that’s mildly interesting. From the piece: “Video games teach resource management, collaboration, critical thinking, and tolerance for failure,” says Ben Sawyer, who runs Digitalmill Inc., a game consultancy in Portland, Me.. … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-administrative"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}