REPLY Running beer game in 1.5 hours (SD6664)

[SDMAIL George Richardson]

Posted by  George Richardson <gpr at albany.edu>

A good debrief of the beer game takes an hour-and-a-half by itself, 
so I'd say don't even try to run the game and debrief it in 1.5 hours.

There a layers of insights from the game, from surface thoughts about 
the availability of information to very deep thoughts about causality, 
blame and the endogenous point of view.  In fact, I think the reason 
the game has been played for so many years is that it may be the best 
quick (3 hour) experience that gets people viscerally to come face-to-
face with endogenously generated dynamics and start the process of 
adopting the habit of a feedback point of view.

One would not want to short-change any of those layers of potential 
learning embedded in the beer game experience and an insightful debrief.  
Deep insights take time and are worth it.

..George

George P. Richardson
Chair of public administration and policy
Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy
University at Albany - SUNY, Albany, NY 12222
Posted by  George Richardson <gpr at albany.edu>
posting date  Wed, 28 Nov 2007 17:32:59 -0500