The Entrepreneurship Stack II: Mindset and Ideation

Learn to think like a founder. Four training simulations focus on teaching the entrepreneurial mindset, idea generation, and the strategic patience required to manage and lead disruptive innovation.

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Forio Stacks are a curated sequence of simulations that teach connected skills. 18 learning pathways span the disciplines that drive business today. Unlock the Stack from Forio's Ready-Made catalog that best aligns to your team's goals.

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Design Thinking

Food Truck

In dynamic, changing environments, prototyping outweighs analysis. The optimal strategy uses the low-capacity pushcart to quickly gather data and learn which combination performs best before committing to the full-scale food truck.

Learning Objectives: Agile mindset, learn-by-doing, rapid prototyping, maximize revenue.

Total Time: 50 min

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Managerial and Entrepreneurial Mindsets

The Babson College Mindset Game

Helps players appreciate that venture creation lies more in action and collaboration than in analysis and competition, exercising a test-and-learn philosophy while contrasting managerial thinking with entrepreneurial thinking.

Learning Objectives: Design thinking, collaboration, innovation, embracing risk and failure, iterative processes, value creation.

Total Time: 90 min

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Innovation

Breaking News

Further emphasizes the value of prototyping and innovation management as this once-thriving newspaper struggles under modern social media and smartphones, mirroring the volatility leaders face when business must catch up with the times.

Learning Objectives: Adaptability, learning and growing, innovative strategy.

Total Time: 75–120 min

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Strategic Innovation

Back Bay Battery

This classic investor's dilemma is a high-level strategic challenge focused on the patient investment required for long-term growth by competing against the act of "non-consumption."

Learning Objectives: Innovative strategy, strategic decision making, risk awareness and management, systems thinking.

Total Time: 105–150 min

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