Beer Game
The Beer Game
Copyright by Professor John Sterman, MIT October 1984
Sources: http://www.sol-ne.org/pra/tool/beer.html The Fifth Discipline: Pg 27-54
Why play the ‘Beer Game’? Instructions for running the game Steps of the Game Outline for post-game discussion and tasks Supplies Checklist & Mock-up of the Game Board Bibliography
CHARTS AND TABLES TO PRINT OUT:
[only issue Table 1 and 2 at the onset of the game. Chart 1-3 to be distributed at the end of the game and before post-game discussion.]
Table 1 : Record Sheet: Cost of Inventory and Backlog Table 2 : Computation of cumulative inventory backlog Graph 1 : Inventory and Backlog Graph 2 : Orders Graph 3 : Perceived order by Customers Slide 1 : Facilitator Slides Slide 2 : Facilitator Slides Slide 3 : Facilitator Slides Slide 4 : Facilitator Slides Slide 5 : Facilitator Slides Slide 6 : Facilitator Slides Slide 7 : Facilitator Slides Slide 8 : Facilitator Slides
Contact Point for loan of Beer Game Set:
If you or your unit is interested in playing this game and need assistance, please contact any of the 1Y LO participants, including the webmaster: Ms Sheila Damodaran at Sheila_Damodaran@spf.gov.sg.
The game sets are kept at TRACOM's Resource Centre (SIRC, TRACOM). Contact: 3594241.
Why play the Beer Game?
The Fifth Discipline, pg 27
[Prisoners of the System, or Prisoners of our Thinking]
This game was developed by Professor John Sterman of MIT to introduce people to fundamental concepts of systems dynamics. Participants experience the pressure of playing a role in a complex system, and come to understand first hand a key principle of systems thinking that structure produces behavior.
The Beer Game is a simulation exercise – like a laboratory experiment, where one is able to see:
❑ The consequences of your decisions play out more clearly in real organisations;
❑ In effect it presents a microcosm of how a real organization
Copyright by Professor John Sterman, MIT October 1984
Sources: http://www.sol-ne.org/pra/tool/beer.html The Fifth Discipline: Pg 27-54
Why play the ‘Beer Game’? Instructions for running the game Steps of the Game Outline for post-game discussion and tasks Supplies Checklist & Mock-up of the Game Board Bibliography
CHARTS AND TABLES TO PRINT OUT:
[only issue Table 1 and 2 at the onset of the game. Chart 1-3 to be distributed at the end of the game and before post-game discussion.]
Table 1 : Record Sheet: Cost of Inventory and Backlog Table 2 : Computation of cumulative inventory backlog Graph 1 : Inventory and Backlog Graph 2 : Orders Graph 3 : Perceived order by Customers Slide 1 : Facilitator Slides Slide 2 : Facilitator Slides Slide 3 : Facilitator Slides Slide 4 : Facilitator Slides Slide 5 : Facilitator Slides Slide 6 : Facilitator Slides Slide 7 : Facilitator Slides Slide 8 : Facilitator Slides
Contact Point for loan of Beer Game Set:
If you or your unit is interested in playing this game and need assistance, please contact any of the 1Y LO participants, including the webmaster: Ms Sheila Damodaran at Sheila_Damodaran@spf.gov.sg.
The game sets are kept at TRACOM's Resource Centre (SIRC, TRACOM). Contact: 3594241.
Why play the Beer Game?
The Fifth Discipline, pg 27
[Prisoners of the System, or Prisoners of our Thinking]
This game was developed by Professor John Sterman of MIT to introduce people to fundamental concepts of systems dynamics. Participants experience the pressure of playing a role in a complex system, and come to understand first hand a key principle of systems thinking that structure produces behavior.
The Beer Game is a simulation exercise – like a laboratory experiment, where one is able to see:
❑ The consequences of your decisions play out more clearly in real organisations;
❑ In effect it presents a microcosm of how a real organization