Autor: Ernesto Morales Kluge

To prepare employees for structural changes within the organization is crucial for the competitiveness of an enterprise. Pretty often changes in an organization are enabled and driven by technological innovations, e.g. information and communications technologies. The arising information and qualification deficit of the employees has to be faced with respect to the changed organizational environment. In this article we describe how these effects can be faced with the methodology of business simulation games.

The introduction of technologies to enterprises and their business processes often leads to extensive consequences. Technical operators are nowadays equipped with mobile and wearable ICT in order to perform maintenance processes faster and more efficiently. However existing interaction paradigms of a typical desktop environment were applied to these mobile and wearable devices. Wearable Computing represents a promising technology for the support of mobile working processes in the industrial context.