Business

Cerrar el Día

The learner is a 38-year-old implementation project lead at a Pamplona warehouse-software company who works hybrid and ends every day still in work mode: she is leading the go-live of a Guadalajara (Mexico) food distributor whose working day falls in her evening, seven or eight hours behind, and her laptop stays open

4 rounds MBA & Masters English, Español

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About this simulation

The learner is a 38-year-old implementation project lead at a Pamplona warehouse-software company who works hybrid and ends every day still in work mode: she is leading the go-live of a Guadalajara (Mexico) food distributor whose working day falls in her evening, seven or eight hours behind, and her laptop stays open on the kitchen table until bedtime.

Decision 1, Monday 1 March 2027: how she finds out what keeps her in work mode (assume it is the workload, a two-week evening log, or a paid digital-detox weekend), how the working day ends (never, a 10-minute shutdown at a fixed time, or finishing everything first) and the crossing from work to home on home days (none, a made-up commute with a walk, or scrolling on the sofa).

Decision 2, late March: the evening phone (notifications on, work apps off with only on-call calls, or a quick look at 23:00), who answers Mexico in the evening (herself, a written response-time agreement with a paid and recorded on-call rota, or a junior analyst as an unrecorded favour) and a new module her director asks for (absorb it, move it after go-live with evidence, or catch up at weekends).

Decision 3, April: what the evening holds (screens, absorbing activities and family time, or a demanding training plan), sleep (late nights, a fixed bedtime with the phone outside, or a sleep-tracking ring) and the bedtime worry (check the laptop, five minutes on paper, or a meditation app).

Decision 4, May: the two go-live weeks (drop everything, a minimum version, or a week off afterwards), the team (a silent boundary, a team after-hours norm under the company disconnection policy, or an unagreed auto-reply) and the review (none, ten minutes on Friday, or a paid 21-day programme).

A deterministic week-by-week model over 12 weeks turns these into four indices (evenings, the project, energy and standing), evenings really off work a week, hours worked a week, euros out of pocket and open risk. The score combines the quality of each decision with those outcomes and is capped when she hands the evenings to the junior analyst off the record. Spanish (primary, Spain) and English.

Who it is for

An intermediate simulation for participants who already know the core concepts of the subject, designed for master's and MBA programmes.

How a session runs

  1. The instructor creates a session from the Eureka dashboard and invites the participants.
  2. Participants play 4 rounds. In each one they submit their decisions and the simulation calculates the results.
  3. The simulation can be run in English, Español.
  4. The instructor follows each participant's progress and results from the dashboard, and uses the class results for the debrief.

Decisions participants make

The decisions participants make during the simulation:

  • Cómo averiguas qué te mantiene en modo trabajo
  • Cómo termina tu jornada
  • El paso del trabajo a casa los días en remoto
  • El móvil por la tarde
  • Quién contesta a México por la tarde
  • El módulo de devoluciones que pide Mikel
  • Qué tiene la tarde
  • El sueño
  • La preocupación de las 23:00 por la puesta en marcha
  • Las dos semanas de la puesta en marcha, del 10 al 21 de mayo

What participants track

What participants follow on screen as the rounds go by:

  • Decisión 1 · Por qué sigo en modo trabajo
  • Decisión 2 · Las noches de México
  • Decisión 3 · La tarde que recupera
  • Decisión 4 · Que aguante la puesta en marcha

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