Wisdom Games was established in South Africa in early 2008 to service a growing niche in corporate education and knowledge management.

The business’ roots are in the academic research of our CEO Raymond de Villiers. While writing his Masters thesis on the impact of computer games in the modern corporate environment he realised a few things

There are few companies in the world offering corporate gaming products who seem to be getting it right.

This seemed to have its roots in having too intense a focus on the information and forgetting that it is about gaming.

The looming retirement of the Baby Boomer generation is something the corporate sector will have to navigate using different tools to those used historically.

Gaming is a unique and effective way of dealing with this imminent crisis – and of creating a new way of working, learning, and retaining knowledge into the future.

Out of these findings and conclusions we have developed a business model and product suite that looks at corporate gaming, wisdom transfer, training, and knowledge management differently.

South Africa has a proud, albeit thin history of technology innovation and cost effectiveness. We remain a Proudly South African company servicing our global customers through local consulting offices that link back into our South African development team.