Friday Night at the ER

Friday Night at the ER® is a board game that recreates the decisions taken on a Friday Night at a hospital emergency room.

A powerful and engaging simulation that teaches Systems Thinking across all industries.

Friday Night at the ER helps people learn to collaborate, to innovate and to drive decisions with data across functional boundaries.

Participants experience work flow and decision making in a virtual world in which space is compressed and time is accelerated so that the consequences of decisions can be observed—a near impossibility with complex systems in the real world!

Board Game

The game simulates the challenges of managing a hospital over a typical 24 hour period. During successive rounds the managers make decisions regarding patient flow, operational policy and use of resources. They must also deal with a variety of events that impact on the system, people and resources at their disposal.

Debrief

The game play is followed by a highly interactive and well documented debriefing session.

As the game progresses players soon come to realise just how much they depend on each other as they try to reconcile both individual and team interests.

 

Friday night at the ER