A new management institute, Der Rutli Fuhrungskrafteseminar, was established in Germany this year. Its leadership is committed to the teaching of management based on the principles of System Dynamics. As an element in the promotion of these ideas, a new System Dynamics management simulator has been developed. There are several ways in which this simulator constitutes a new concept in management training. In particular, we have addressed the issue of teaching policy design, supplemented by design making. The properties of the simulator originate from the characteristics of the underlying software. Consequently they can be applied generally to any system dynamics based management simulator. In particular, the simulator; (1) the simulator is a multi-group simulator utilizing any personal computer network that supports MS windows; (2) The simulator allows the user not only to submit decisions to the server that calculates and returns a new state, but also to formulate and try out, on their local computer, their own strategies over any strategic horizon; (3) the simulator gives the user access to; -the underlying simulation model (to an extent determined by the administrator); -The tool by which the simulation model was built, allowing the users to formulate and test their own dynamic hypotheses. In this paper, we describe these characteristics of a new generation of simulators for management training, illustrated by Der Rutli Management Simulator, and we discuss the potential implications of taking advantage of these characteristic.

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