1. Starting with the Young
Professor Ockie Bosch
Systems Design and Complexity Management
University of Adelaide Business School
Creating New Era Leaders
Starting with the Young

2. Complexity and Dynamics
Increasing Competition
Technological
developments
Global Information Exchange
Climate and Environmental changes
Complexity and Dynamics
Social & Political
Developments
International Division of Labour
Differentiation of
Customer Needs
Disruption of the Value Chain
Dealing with Complexity and Coping with Increasing Market Dynamics have become major challenges for Managers and Decision Makers

3. A Coherent Net Torn Apart

4. Making Decisions in such a Complex Web of Interactions
Do we get it right?
Do we make good policy and investment decisions?
Are we aware of the unintended consequences of our decisions?
Are we effective in our cross-sectoral communication and collaboration to deal with the multi-dimensional nature of complex problems?
Do we go for quick fixes because it is easier to treat the symptoms?
Politicians, business managers and all members of society have to make important decisions on a daily basis in the complex web in which business, social issues, finance and economics, environment, politics and culture are all highly interconnected OR
Do we urgently need new and innovative ways of thinking and a fresh approach and tools to deal with the problems facing our society?

5. Starting with the Young
Creating a “new way of thinking” in society is highly difficult
Starting with the Young
has been identified as a major leverage point to address this difficult problem and gaming is part of the culture or language that talks to young people.
Ecopolicy
A cybernetics simulation game that introduces young people to the concepts of systems and interconnected thinking.

6. Short Overview: Ecopolicyade® Gaming contest
Founded in 2004 by the teachers H.-W. Hansen & W.D. John in Malente
2005 German State Schleswig-Holstein – Final Ecopolicyade in German Parliament
pupils
2006 German Federal States Lower Saxony and Schleswig-Holstein
pupils
2007 German States Berlin and Schleswig-Holstein
100 schools and pupils
2008 Germany-wide - Funded by German
Ministry of the Interior and Sponsors
(Staedler, Invotel, Berlin City Council....)
> participants
2010 / 2011 / Germany –wide: Strong involvement from Business & Government Sectors; Finals in German Parliament
> 200, participants
Netherlands 2011, USA CA 2011, Austria 2012, Italy 2012, Australia (Adelaide) 2012, Vietnam 2012/3, Sri Lanka 2013, Argentina 2013, Australia-wide 2013/4, China 2013/4, Japan 2013/4

7. What is Ecopolicy about?

8. Opening Niedersachsen 2007
Prime Minister Dr. Christian Wulff
Dr. Karl-Heinz Oeller Malik MZSG
Hans-Werner Hansen ecopoliyade Büro

9. ecopolicyade® Finals in the German Parliament, Berlin

10. Munich, Members of the City Council playing with Students

11. Students and Politicians

12. Berlin Business Team

13. Final Contest in Brandenburg, Opening Ceremony with the Minister of Culture, Martina München, April 2012

14. ZDF-TV broadcast ecopolicyade

15. ecopolicyade® Schleswig- Holstein, Schloss Bredeneck 2008

16. TV-News Lower Saxony

17. TV-News Schleswig-Holstein

19. ecopolicyade® international
2011/12
Germany
Austria (Salzburg)
Netherlands
USA California
2012/13
Poland
Spain
WeißRussia
Australia (Adelaide)
Switzerland
Vietnam
2013/14
Australia
China
Brasil
Italy
Sri Lanka
Argentina
Japan
Adelaide