Fashion Forward

Simulation Overview

In this simulation, participants are challenged to manage the design, manufacturing, and retail activities of a fast fashion company to improve the company’s financial and sustainability metrics.

Time Requirement

• Introduction - 15 minutes
• Game Play - 60 minutes
• Debrief - 20 to 30 minutes

The Story

In this five-year simulation, learners run a fast-fashion company, making decisions on design, manufacturing, and retail to improve its circularity and profitability. They start by choosing a product line.

Each year, participants select circular initiatives across the value chain, deciding how much to invest in training and R&D. They then receive feedback on the company’s performance in circularity, waste, emissions, and profit. Learners find that while new business models can create revenue, maintaining profitability during a shift toward circularity is a significant challenge. The principles they learn can be applied to any industry aiming to reduce waste.

Facilitators can enable an AI-powered feature that provides personalized, constructive feedback on the participants’ reasoning for each decision. This promotes critical thinking and creates a record of their rationale.

Learning Focus

• Learn about circularity and how to measure and report it.
• Make decisions that positively impact a company’s greenhouse gas emissions.
• Adopt new business models and strategies.

Topics Covered

• Circularity and Profitability
• Decision Making
• Operations and Environmental Management
• Corporate Sustainability

Each simulation comes with a Teaching Guidebook for the facilitator along with 1:1 facilitator training and free trials.

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This simulation is by Tim Rogmans