A Computer based Training aid for Wholesale Management

The increasingly important role of business games in management training owes much to recent trends in computing - particularly microcomputing. Over a period of little more than five years, the business micro has been utterly transformed - with feeble and expensive equipment giving way to powerful low cost technology. The effect of this change on business games has been enormous. Manual games, traditional since the mid-1950's have now been largely superseded by computer-based packages. Apart from their flexibility, packages have the major advantage of being able to handle complex calculations almost instantaneously. As games have exploited this capability, so they have become more faithful to the situations they seek to represent. The effect of this is that modern games are more relevant to training than ever before. And indeed, more powerful as facilities on microcomputer systems - not least those for communications and graphics - continue their inexorable advance,