Capstone Reflection

What did I learn from the Capstone experience?
The simulation was a good exercise to practice team work in something more concrete than courses. It was very interesting to work as a team with people I did not know. The interactions were good, there was a good atmosphere and everybody was integrated. This experience allows me to feel good in a team; I know which place I can have. I think I can lead a group and I also can listen to the other. The simulation was also a good experience because we needed to think as real manager with results on the short and the long term. It was a little stressful but I felt above all exciting and involved in the simulation.
In the simulation I was in charge of the Research&Development department. I need to forecast the positioning of the product. I also had to think long term because in some period, we cannot change the positioning of the product. In real life, I think this kind of decisions are very important because they determine the place the product have and the size and the performance product needs to achieve to be well sold. When we launched a new product we need to change the positioning of products which belong to the same market segment to avoid
Indeed, our sales were not as good as expected because we had too many inventories. We tried to improve the R&D and to stay in our strategy of differentiation. It was difficult to understand where the problem comes from because we had good result on the 4th first period. In real life, this event can occur, in depends on the market and on the competitors. A company needs to be very reactive and to adapt to the market all the time. In order to avoid these types of problem in real life, the firm has to be dynamic and to know well its competitors. The entire department are important, R&D, marketing, production and finance; they need to be well coordinate and to work together. The strategy has to be coherent and to face