In two days your team runs a real company with its own hands: design, buy, build, check, sell and close the accounts. Eight times. Every number live on every phone.
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Training day
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Training day
Why BPC in the AI era
The faster machines produce answers, the more it matters who asks the right question, checks the answer and takes responsibility for the result.
The Business Paradigm Challenge (BPC) is a two-day, hands-on business simulation by AIBOTS in which teams of six run a paper-pyramid manufacturing company over eight sessions: they design, buy, build, check, sell and close the accounts, while BPC Digital keeps every number live on their phones.
It is small enough to hold in your hand and complete enough to be a real business: suppliers, a bank, quality checks, customers and three financial statements. What it trains is everything AI leaves to people.
The timer is running, cash is short and the customer wants nine centimetres on every side. Somebody has to decide, and live with it.
No prompt replaces trust. Teams learn to brief, listen, hand over and back each other, in a different role every session.
Anyone can ask a machine for a report. Leaders know where each figure came from, because they made the decision behind it.
Kaizen: after every session the team finds one waste and removes it. Improvement becomes a habit, not a slogan.
Learning with five senses
BPC is built so every lesson enters through all five senses, the way a transformation leader has to read a real workplace.
See. Hear. Touch. Speak. Feel. Then improve.
Genba: go and see
The line, the stock, the wallet, the charts on the big screen. You judge by what is in front of you, not by what a report says.
Listen before you decide
The customer at the desk, the checker who rejects a pyramid, the quiet teammate with the best idea. The sound of a sale.
Genbutsu: the real thing
Measure, cut, fold, glue. A nine-centimetre pyramid in your own hand teaches quality faster than any definition.
Lead out loud
Six roles that rotate every session. Everyone briefs, negotiates, reports and leads the company at least once.
Make it matter
The pressure of the timer, the sting of a reject, cash running out, the joy of the first sale. Feeling is what makes a lesson stay.
A leader who has only read about change can describe it. A leader who has seen, heard, touched, spoken and felt it can make it happen, and bring a team along. That is the difference these two days are built to make.
Who it is for
The same paper pyramid teaches a fifteen-year-old about money and a manager about cash flow. Only the conversation afterwards changes.
School studentsThey go home knowing what they are good at, and curious about what they could become.
University studentsThey leave with a story for every interview: what we tried, what failed, what we fixed.
Working teamsThey return as one team with one language for improvement. HRDC claimable for Malaysian employers.
The method behind it
The ideas that built the world’s most admired factories work in every office, classroom and start-up. BPC lets people meet them first, and name them after.
Go to the real place and look at the real thing before you decide. In BPC the factory is your own table.
Change for the better, a little every session, by the people who do the work. The team promises one improvement and keeps it.
Respect for people. Fix the cause, not the person. Every role is needed and every voice is heard.
Give the customer exactly what was asked for, with nothing wasted on the way. Then do it faster.
The system measures five of them from the game’s own data; the trainers rate the other two.
A tidy table is a fast table. Teams feel it within a few sessions.
At a glance
How a session runs
The organiser moves the room from one step to the next with one button. The timer counts down on every phone, but it never moves the room by itself.
The minutes are the standard settings. The organiser can change them for a training.
Six roles
A company is six people. Roles rotate every session, so the Accountant of Session 1 may be the Production Manager of Session 2.
Leads the team, asks the Bank for loans, closes the session.
Decides the pyramid design and how many fit on one Drawing Block.
Buys materials, tools and equipment from the Shop.
Starts each pyramid, sticks its number on, finishes it.
Checks every finished pyramid before it goes to the outside checker.
Keeps the accounts and prepares the three financial reports.
What people take home
Every idea is met first on the factory floor, then named in a short lesson inside the game, with a check and a glossary.
Change for the better: small improvements, every session, by the people doing the work. The seven wastes tell you where to look.
Output divided by input. Find the slowest step, balance the work across six people, get each pyramid right the first time. Takt time sets the pace.
Meet the requirement: 9 cm on every side. Your own check catches problems cheaply; the outside checker catches them when it is too late. Fix the cause, not the person.
Understand the user, define the problem, try ideas, prototype cheaply, test. In this game you design the product and the way your team works.
Profit & Loss: did we make money? Balance Sheet: what do we own, and what do we owe? Cash Flow: where did the cash go? Profit is not cash.
Built for the whole room
On their own phones
On tablets at the four desks
On a PC, with the big screen for the room
Questions and answers
The Business Paradigm Challenge (BPC) is a two-day, hands-on business simulation by AIBOTS in which teams of six run a paper-pyramid manufacturing company over eight sessions: they design, buy, build, check, sell and close the accounts, while BPC Digital keeps every number live on their phones.
AI can draft a plan, a report or a design in seconds. It cannot take responsibility for a decision, lead a team under pressure, or notice what is really happening on the floor. BPC trains exactly those human skills: judgement, teamwork, ownership of the numbers and the habit of improving the work every session (Kaizen).
School students, university students and working staff. Students meet business, money and teamwork with their own hands before or alongside the textbook. Working teams, from new hires to managers, see how every decision in one department changes cash and profit for the whole company.
No. Every idea is met first in the game and then named in a short lesson. By the end, participants have closed eight sets of accounts themselves and can read a Profit & Loss statement, a Balance Sheet and a Cash Flow statement that came from their own decisions.
See, hear, touch, speak and feel. Participants see the real work and the live figures, hear the customer and each other, touch and build the real product, speak as they decide and lead in rotating roles, and feel the pressure of the timer and the joy of a sale. Lessons that enter through all five senses are the ones people keep.
BPC runs over two days in eight sessions. Participants work in companies of six, and several companies compete in the same room, so a class is usually built in multiples of six.
BPC Digital is the live web system that runs the training. Players use their own phones, trainers use tablets at the Shop, Bank, External QC and Sales desks, and the organiser moves the room from a PC with a big screen. It works in the browser and nothing needs to be installed.
Japanese management practice in action: Kaizen (continuous improvement), Genba Genbutsu (go and see the real thing), Ningen Sonchō (respect for people), Lean thinking and the seven wastes, 5S, quality at the source, takt time and productivity, plus design thinking and the three financial statements.
Send AIBOTS a message with the contact form at the foot of aibots.my/bpc, by email to sales@aibots.my or by phone on +60169248013. We agree the dates, the venue and the number of companies, and bring the trainers, the materials and BPC Digital. For Malaysian employers the training is HRDC claimable.
For companies
Two days. Six roles. Eight sessions. Real accounts at the end of every one, and a system that keeps every number right while your people learn by doing.
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Book a training
Tell us who will take part (a school, a university or a company), how many people and when. Your message goes straight to our sales team at sales@aibots.my and we reply within 48 hours.