CELEMI Tango™ is a leadership and talent management business simulation for knowledge-intensive, project-based organizations. Participants run a company where success depends on people, competence, reputation, and the ability to attract both the right employees and the right customers, while achieving sustainable profitability.
The simulation creates a shared learning experience where leadership, talent decisions, and business outcomes are tightly connected.
CELEMI Tango™ simulates a knowledge-intensive, project-based organization where value is created primarily through people rather than physical assets. The business environment reflects organizations where expertise, delivery capability, organizational know-how, and company image are critical drivers of competitiveness and long-term value.
CELEMI Tango™ integrates leadership, talent management, and business acumen in a competitive simulation environment. Rather than focusing mainly on financial or operational efficiency, the simulation highlights how people-related decisions and team composition influence customer outcomes, business performance, and long-term market value in knowledge-driven organizations.
Teams compete in two markets simultaneously: customers and talent.
In the customer market, teams compete through their R&D investments, reputation, culture, and pricing strategies. These choices must be aligned with their competence profile and capacity in order to meet client needs effectively. How well teams match the right capabilities to the right customers directly affects collaboration, delivery quality, project outcomes, and financial performance, particularly under pressure and in challenging situations.
At the same time, teams compete in the talent market. They must recruit, develop, deploy, and retain key employees while building an organization that people want to stay with. After several simulated years, teams can headhunt talent from competitors. In parallel, they can actively implement mitigation strategies to protect critical people, such as investing in development, leadership practices, incentives, culture, and overall organizational attractiveness.
In CELEMI Tango™, teams build organizational know-how and company image through decisions on competence development, learning investments, project selection, delivery quality, and customer relationships.
These intangible assets are tracked over time and influence which customers the company can win, which employees it can attract and retain, how effectively people and projects are matched, and the company’s overall market value. This makes intangible value creation concrete and visible.
CELEMI Tango™ is used by organizations in any industry where value is primarily created through knowledge workers and project-based work.
This includes professional services firms as well as knowledge-intensive functions within larger organizations such as R&D, IT, digital, engineering, product development, transformation programs, and internal consulting teams. The most common use case is leadership development that supports cross-functional alignment and strengthens talent management, collaboration, and shared business understanding. It's a perfect solution for future leaders programs.
Participants develop a stronger understanding of how leadership and talent decisions impact customer success, business performance, and long-term value creation.
They strengthen their ability to attract and retain key people, align competence with customer needs, balance short-term results with long-term capability building, and lead under uncertainty. The simulation also builds business acumen, collaboration, negotiation skills, and cross-functional understanding.
CELEMI Tango™ and CELEMI Decision Base™ both use full financial statements, including profit and loss, cash flow, and balance sheet, to show how decisions translate into financial results.
The difference lies in the business reality being simulated. CELEMI Tango™ focuses on knowledge-intensive, project-based organizations where value is primarily created through people, competence, reputation, and the ability to match talent to customer needs. CELEMI Decision Base™ simulates capital-intensive manufacturing companies, where value creation is driven by investments, capacity, production decisions, and long-term capital allocation. Together, the simulations address fundamentally different but equally realistic business contexts.