People & Leadership · Organizational Behavior

The Org Chart Game: Structure, Span & Delegation

Play COO of a 200-person UK food manufacturer. Across 5 rounds, fix an over-centralised founder, delayer an over-tall hierarchy, pick functional vs divisional vs matrix, split decisions across centralisation levels, and draft a final restructure memo.

5 rounds MBA & Masters English, Español

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About this simulation

Play COO of a 200-person UK food manufacturer. Across 5 rounds, fix an over-centralised founder, delayer an over-tall hierarchy, pick functional vs divisional vs matrix, split decisions across centralisation levels, and draft a final restructure memo. Teaches span of control, delegation, hierarchy, structure types, and the centralisation spectrum.

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 5 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:

  • Restructure action
  • Target span for the founder
  • Number of management layers
  • Structure type
  • Pricing
  • Product design
  • Hiring
  • Marketing
  • Finance
  • Final layers

What participants track

What participants follow on screen as the rounds go by:

  • The Founder Bottleneck
  • Your Redesign Choices

Subjects covered

Designed for courses in Organizational Behavior.

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