Lisbon, Portugal, 24 September 2018

Congratulations to all the competition finalists and to the games that took home awards at this year’s International Business Learning Games Competition. The competition, sponsored by Banco Santander, saw a large number of entries reduced, after multiple run-throughs by the judges, to only 12 finalists:

• ActeeLeadership   (Denmark)
• AdVenture   (The Netherlands)
• Bedaux Mythical Mailbox   (The Netherlands)
• Entrepreneurial Thinking   (Canada)
• Future of Energy Simulation   (Norway)
• Innovate or Dinosaur Game   (Canada)
• Innovation Management Game   (The Netherlands)
• OUTTA THIS WORLD!   (USA)
• The Collaboration Journey Challenge   (USA)
• The Search for The Lost Dutchman’s Gold Mine   (USA)
• Trip Game   (Portugal)
• Unlock: Project Management   (UK)

The Award Winners were:

Award	Game	Entrant
Game of the Year	Future of Energy Simulation	Specifique (Norway)
Game of the Year Runner Up	Innovate or Dinosaur	Traction Strategy (Canada)
Most Ambitious Game	ActeeLeadership	Actee (Denmark)

About The International Business Learning Games Competition

The International Business Learning Games Competition was created to encourage the use of new, innovative approaches to professional development by promoting the use of Learning Games as an educational technology. It recognises achievements and acknowledges the best games in the field from around the globe, inspiring the development of new innovative learning games for business.

Games are judged by an international panel of judges that combines expertise in business, pedagogy and game design, using a specially developed evaluation framework with input from educational experts and serious game designers. For more information on the competition see: BusinessLearningGames.com

About The Business Excellence Institute

The Business Excellence Institute is a membership body, with members on five continents, dedicated to helping people – and the organizations they work for – deliver outstanding results for all their stakeholders. It promotes business excellence as a multi-disciplinary profession, excellence in management, and the use of innovative approaches to personal and organizational development. Through its members, it supports organisations ranging from small family run businesses to federal governments on their journeys to excellence.

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Contact: Matt Fisher Tel: +353-1-5134500

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Game of the Year
Game of the Year Runner Up
Most Ambitious Game

We are delighted to announce the launch of the Pragmatic Manager Development Program. The highly interactive program consists of twelve 2.5 hours sessions – spaced a month apart – over the course of a year. It combines work on real-life business challenges with exposure to global good practice. Participants are required to apply learning in their workplace during the program, which brings benefit to their companies and develops management know-how along with the focus and commitment needed to achieve both rapid impact and long-term, sustainable improvement.

Neal Traynor, the Institute’s COO, says “We’re excited to launch the program, which is carefully crafted to equip practicing managers in small and medium sized businesses and family businesses with the know-how, skills, and confidence to develop their management and leadership abilities. It’s been developed by practicing managers, not by academics, and requires participants to work on challenges they face at work as part of the program.”

The program commences on 19 November 2018 for people in Dublin prior to further roll-out. Enrolment is now open and spaces are limited – for more information see The Pragmatic Manager Development Program.

The 2018 Excellence Hall of Fame induction ceremony was held in the Shelbourne Hotel, Dublin, Ireland, on April 19. During the gala dinner, three more outstanding people became members of the Excellence Hall of Fame:

• Ambassador Julia Chang Bloch, Founder & CEO, US-China Education Trust
• Marie Lindsay, Principal, St. Mary’s College Derry/Londonderry
• Raomal Perera, Adjunct Professor, INSEAD & UCD


You can learn more about them on the Excellence Hall of Fame website ExcellenceHallofFame.org .

We are delighted to announce that we have entered into an an agreement to cooperate with the Latin American Quality Institute to promote excellence and deepen our commitment to adding value for our members around the globe.