Taikiti Bay(tm)

Taikiti Bay

creating value through collaboration

A realistic and effective collaborative experience

the workshop

Many companies face the need of working together to create value. Mergers, alliances, Strategic partnerships. Many face difficulties in making this form of 'working together' a reality, one that creates real, sustainable value and doesn't damage image or results. This workshop is aimed at experiencing how to 'Create value through collaboration'.

   

Taikiti bay is a simulation in which participants play stakeholders of a tropical Island destination. Their task is to enure Taikiti bay becomes a leading tourist destination in order to meet the Islands needs for sustainable and economically responsible growth. Protecting the Islands culture and ecology and at the same time providing infrastructure and employment to support the local population and at the same time meet the commercial needs of Island investors. Taikiti bays' stakeholders must learn to work together to balance various stakeholder demands and create value for all.

learning objectives

In this workshop participants will learn:

• How to organize collaboration processes
• How to setup sustainable collaborations
• How to increase performance of teams
• The success factors and fail factors of successful collaboration
• How to translate individual objectives to team objectives

target audience

• Management teams who need to learn how to setup collaboration processes to improve performance of teams and organizations.
• Consultants and Project Managers responsible for projects where collaborations is a critical success factor.
  
• Employees who participate in large collaboration programmes
  

roles

In this workshop the participants will play different roles.

• Director of an Airport. Responsible for the safe transportation of all the tourists to and from the Island.
• Director of an exclusive Hotel. Your target is to maximise revenue of this high quality Hotel.
• Director of the Golf Course. Your aim is to run an exclusive Course with low waiting times and an excellent playing experience.
• Director of the Harbor. You run this Harbor with it's charming small town and tourist shops. The Harbor offers moring capacity and also days trips to visit the pictoresque  'little Taikiti'
  
• Director of the Cottage park. A small bungalow park nestled amongst the trees catering for families.
• Director of the Wild Life Reserve. Your aim is to protect the wild life on the Island.
• Governor. You are the Governor of Taikiti bay. Your aim is to ensure the welfare of the local population by providing employment, protect the Island Heritage and ensure the Island continues to receive heritage funds to support the Island and fund new projects.
  

brief description

In the first round of the game you will be challenged to invest in order to realize your goals. You will have an operating budget as well as a set of key goals to be realized. You must decide how best to invest your money in order to be succesfull.

After this first round there will be additional information available about the position of Taikiti Bay in relation to the other Islands. The Governor will want to ensure that Taikiti bay not only has a good position in relation to competing Islands but also that Taikiti bay continues to receive its world heritage funding to pay for new projects. In the next rounds the players need to find a way of ensuring their own goals are met as well as those of the Island.

Who will be the best collaborating team?