Facilitation Tip No. 15: Run it quarterly

💡 To make the most of the sales seasonality in our business games, it is best to run all 12 months of the virtual year. To let those with the tightest schedules simulate a full virtual year, we created quarterly datasets. These are datasets in which the seasonal coefficients are identical for every month within the same quarter. This way, facilitating the monthly version can be sped up at certain points by running several simulations back to back (in which case the decisions from the first month are automatically carried over to the following month).

💻 Closing decisions: Launch the simulation x3

SAMPLE SCHEDULE:

Day 1

12:00 pm: Closing of January's decisions, then simulation
(Option to make minor corrections to the decisions to avoid the most glaring mistakes)
2:30 pm: Closings and simulations for February and March
5:00 pm: Closings and simulations for April, May and June

Day 2

2:00 pm: Closings and simulations for July, August and September
5:00 pm: Closings and simulations for October, November and December