History of The Business Strategy Game

The two original authors of The Business Strategy Game, Art Thompson and Greg Stappenbeck, began work on the first edition of the simulation in 1989. Since the release of the first edition in 1990, there have been seven totally reprogrammed new editions. With each edition the authors have been dedicated to keeping BSG on the cutting edge both technologically and academically.

1990	1992	1995	1997	1998	1999	2001	2002
1st Edition DOS and Lotus 123-based program on 5¼ floppy disks	2nd Edition DOS-based on 3½ inch floppy disks	3rd Edition The last DOS-based version	4th Edition The first Windows-based version	5th Edition Networkable version	6th Edition Last of the stand-alone Windows versions	7th Edition First version to utilize MS Excel as the program platform	Version 7.20 The enhanced 7th Edition on CD ROM

2004 — 2008

BSG-Online

A client-server version
delivered totally online

In 2003, Mark Reidenbach joined the author team and the 8th edition, BSG-Online, was released in August of 2004. A number of important website and program enhancements and upgrades were implemented throughout 2005, and in August of 2005 Chris Harms and Ira Thrasher joined the author team. The authors and publisher are constantly working to improve BSG-Online to accommodate and take advantage of new technologies and to leverage the learning opportunities that the simulation offers.