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- Wed Sep 20, 2006 3:19 pm
- Forum: SD Mailing List Archive
- Topic: QUERY Beer Game Simulation Performance Metrics
- Replies: 15
- Views: 12493
QUERY Beer Game Simulation Performance Metrics
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...
- Tue Sep 19, 2006 2:19 pm
- Forum: SD Mailing List Archive
- Topic: QUERY Beer Game Simulation Performance Metrics
- Replies: 15
- Views: 12493
QUERY Beer Game Simulation Performance Metrics
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.""...
- Wed Jun 28, 2006 12:17 pm
- Forum: SD Mailing List Archive
- Topic: QUERY Initialization Analytics
- Replies: 5
- Views: 6011
QUERY Initialization Analytics
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...
- Sat Dec 24, 2005 7:56 pm
- Forum: SD Mailing List Archive
- Topic: SD and other modelling approaches
- Replies: 41
- Views: 41265
SD and other modelling approaches
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...
- Sat May 14, 2005 12:25 pm
- Forum: SD Mailing List Archive
- Topic: Mental model creation process
- Replies: 7
- Views: 6240
Mental model creation process
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...
- Fri May 13, 2005 11:34 am
- Forum: SD Mailing List Archive
- Topic: Mental model creation process
- Replies: 7
- Views: 6240
Mental model creation process
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...
- Fri May 06, 2005 1:46 pm
- Forum: SD Mailing List Archive
- Topic: MRP and Production Planning
- Replies: 12
- Views: 9643
MRP and Production Planning
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...
- Tue Apr 12, 2005 11:34 am
- Forum: SD Mailing List Archive
- Topic: Evaluating expected modeling benefits
- Replies: 15
- Views: 18689
Evaluating expected modeling benefits
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, "...