Why waste your time reading this blog...?
Well, I think that I might have something to offer. You decide.
Here is my scorecard for my first Capsim competition during the course. I was team Andrews. At the end of the sim, round 8, my final score was 852 of a possible 1000. Yeah, I could have done better. I took an emergency loan from Big Al in round 2 due to boneheaded sales forecasting. Still, not too bad for my first time playing the sim. We were graded on total points in the balanced scorecard. I had the highest score and got an A for the class.
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Next, my recap scores for the whole sim, rounds 1-8. I fell just short of a perfect score due to that emergency loan of $2m in round 2.
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This next graph shows the success measures, comparing each team's performance.
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Finally, here are the weighted relative scores for team Andrews. I murdered the competition, scoring the highest in 7 of 8 measures.
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Team Andrews won, and I had a blast doing it! I have since played the sim about a dozen times, against other students and at other times against the computer teams. Each competition has introduced new challenges and learning experiences for me.
Here's a video from part of my final presentation. The class loved it!
Check out the pages over on the right side of the page. There is where you will find all the content to help you with Capsim.
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Wow! THANK YOU for all of this free, practical information! My team and I are in a GlobalDNA simulation and were struggling with forecasting. Fortunately, I found your website and used one of your forecasting models to make decisions for the second round. It was spot on! My team and I cannot thank you enough! Many of the concepts apply across the different simulations, and I hope that you expand this blog in the future, especially on the marketing module. There is not a lot of free, reliable, practical information out there, so your advice and observations have been tremendously helpful. Thank you again!
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