Organizational-activity game
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An organizational-activity game (OAG) is kind of game designed to facilitate organisational change. It is for this reason it is described as a development game, rather than a brainstorming or role-playing game. Generally the game is designed to deal with a specific predetermined concrete problem. They were devised by Georgy Shchedrovitsky of the Moscow Methodological Circle. He brought together various people involved in Research and Development under the auspices of the USSR Academy of Pedagogy.[1] Activity games are distinguished from the earlier action games by being open, i.e. based on flexible scenarios rather than pre-conceived solutions.[2]
The first OAG was held in 1979. One of the first games was the Ural Region Game which was devised to formulating a plan as regards how best to achieve the target set forth in the state production plan. By 1987 50 large and more than 100 small games had been conducted.[1]
