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Posted by ""Thompson, James. P (Jim) A142"" <Jim.Thompson@CIGNA.COM> The original query and responses raise interesting questions: What's the Beer Game for? Why do teachers, instructors, trainers or consultants use the Beer Game? What do we want from the players? Does the composi...

Posted by ""Thompson, James. P (Jim) A142"" <Jim.Thompson@CIGNA.COM> Regarding performance metrics for the Beer Game, Carl Betterton notes that facilitators may want to ""consider letting players choose (before playing) the performance measure they will use.""...

Posted by ""Thompson, James. P (Jim) A142"" <Jim.Thompson@CIGNA.COM> There were several helpful replies to the question of why one should find analytic equilibrium (Initialization Analytics (SD5956)). But, as Yaman Barlas observed, finding analytic equilibrium can often be very d...

Posted by ""Thompson, James. P (Jim) A142"" <Jim.Thompson@CIGNA.COM> Geoff Coyle writes. ""... maybe it was a mistake to found the SD Society.... Perhaps we should just be members of the OR Society, Institute of Management Sciences, etc and show ourselves as analysts wh...

Posted by ""Thompson, James. P (Jim) A142"" <Jim.Thompson@CIGNA.COM> (Reposted - first sent as SD5280 with formatting error) Ahmet Ilker Soydan wrote: ""...what and how does the subject simplify the process, which algoritms, line of reasoning, logic, mental tool etc. do...

Posted by ""Thompson, James. P (Jim) A142"" <Jim.Thompson@CIGNA.COM> Ahmet Ilker Soydan wrote: ""...what and how does the subject simplify the process, which algoritms, line of reasoning, logic, mental tool etc. does he/she uses? Why does he/she ignore some issues and f...

Posted by ""Thompson, James. P (Jim) A142"" <Jim.Thompson@CIGNA.COM> Alan Graham wrote: ""For a look at somewhat more detailed issues, check out John Morecroft's PhD dissertation at MIT's Sloan School of Management on production planning and the impact of MRP systems on...

Posted by ""Thompson, James. P (Jim) A142"" <Jim.Thompson@CIGNA.COM> J.J. Laublé asks how to evaluate the level of results expected by a system dynamics modelling effort. System dynamics applications are investments with unknowable paybacks. However, as John Sterman writes, "...