Why do ViAL+ Use?

1. In ViAL+ participant get new company only with start company and unlimited opportunities for strategic and tactical manager decisions.
2. ViAL+ is virtual economic environment without scenario and computer.
3. ViAL+ is more possible realistic environment creating by real participants and modelling from real example ― milk market of CIS.
4. ViAL+ is interactive system, for access you must have only Internet and PC. 
5. ViAL+ open unlimited opportunities for making decision by participants ― you can try different variant of strategic and tactical business decision. In result, you get practical management skills.
6. Participants in ViAL+ can be in different role – CEO, functional managers (production, marketing and sales, finance, personal), analysts, sales manager and even accountants.
7. In ViAL+ participant can communicate with other competitors for trading resources, making mutually advantageous terms of cooperation and for other situations.
8. ViAL+ is effective training system, which have approbated by more 500 people (students, professors, specialists-economists, professionals in different branches of economy and other) and recognized in Moscow State University (Russia), leading Ukrainian Economic University.
9. ViAL+ is bridge between theoretical knowledge and practice of manager of business.
10. ViAL+ is modelling industrial and service company with large amount of business process.
11. ViAL+ is serious training system of practical manager skills with intuitive and understandable interface.
12. ViAL+ have comfortable training mode for start.

Advantages of Participation in Business Simulation ViAL+

Participation in ViAL+ gives an opportunity to get practical experience and skills of management of economic processes, in the context of individual functional services of the enterprise, and of the process of enterprises management in whole.

After registration in the system the participant receives the enterprise and the opportunity to take the economic and management decisions, that are necessary for beginning of its operation and further development on the basis of the theoretical knowledge received during the training process. 
He can use the standard financial instruments, determine the nomenclature of production which is planned for production, explore it during production, expand and modernize production technology base, recruit and organize the work of the personnel. The participant has the opportunity to start the promotion and sales of the products, using appropriate marketing tools.

It must be emphasized that the enterprise operated by participant is in a market environment and by making decisions he should take into account the market activity of other ViAL+ participants on the market.

Thus competition in the virtual market space motivates the student to not only to search for effective ways of promotion of the products, but also to make changes in the production process to change the product consumer appeal and optimize its cost.

Business Simulation ViAL+ hasn`t scenario, always new market situation

In the business simulation ViAL+ there is no classic scenario, certain path simulation, and the only true solution to win in the simulation.

During developing of business-simulation ViAL+ the approaches were used that differ from the traditional approaches. The refuse from the scenario approach, a certain path simulation, was made. This simulation allows the participants to achieve high learning results not by reaching the single correct solution, but by the usage of economic logic, which corresponds to the existing situation on virtual market, which was made by participants themselves.

The authors ViAL+ applied the principle of creating an environment in which the whole «physics» (laws and rules) of enterprise economics, business logic is valid, and which responds to the relevant decisions of the participant, giving the result, which is close to logic, that corresponds to the reality. 

The company operated by participant is in a market environment and by making decisions he should take into account the market activity of other ViAL+ participants on the market. 

Thus competition in the virtual market space motivates the participant to not only to search for effective ways of promotion of the products, but also to make changes in the production process to change the product consumer appeal and optimize its cost.

Approbation and Using Business Simulation ViAL+

Business simulation ViAL+ has been tested with the participation of more than 500 participants in the format of focus-groups, trainings and   practicum during the 2011-2012 academic year. The participants of  the testing were students and teachers of the leading universities of the country, scientists of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, representatives of the real sector of the economy.

Our wins:

• Business simulation ViAL+ ranked first place at competitive projects «Pegasus-2013» in Belgorod.
• The third place at competitive projects on the Innovative technologies festival in the framework of the II All-Russian festival of science in 2012.

In 2013 the master class was organized in the framework of the XXXVIII International scientific and methodical conference “Quality of higher education: methodological and methodical approaches to the implementation of distance learning technologies” in the Poltava University of economy and trade, which was attended by teachers of higher educational establishments. A sole seminar and All-University tournament were held in Kharkiv National Economic University (http://www.hneu.edu.ua/articles/profile/249).

Today on the basis of business simulation ViAL+ following activities are held:

• business-tournament in Kharkiv National Economic University;
• interactive business practice at the Kyiv National Economic University;
• the negotiations about its usage in other 3 Universities of Ukraine.

The main areas of the usage of business simulation ViAL+ are:

1. Conducting of trainings, seminars on the economic processes management of the company at higher educational institutions as well as at training, study centres.
2. Conducting of production practice for students.
3. Conducting of tournaments both within the higher educational establishment and between the different higher educational establishments in Ukraine and abroad.
4. Conducting corporate trainings for staff development.

Nowadays business simulation ViAL+ is an effective tool not only for training and shaping of practical skills, but also for reunion and deepening of the cooperation between the participant, the higher educational establishment and the employer. Since the participant receives and deepens the necessary practical skills, higher educational establishment receives highly qualified graduates, and employers are more confident in young specialists, who can make decisions and solve real-life situations.