People Express 2000 Management Flight Simulator
Features
Teams control strategy by making a small number of key decisions, and can progress through the simulation at their own pace, trying alternatives and saving scenarios.
This business simulation, created by Professor John Sterman at MIT was updated by Global Strategy Dynamics to offer additional facilities, such as a 'Game Notepad' to record your strategy and a table of all variables for easy analysis as well as compatibility with later operating systems
Teams make management decisions on a Quarterly basis and can select to run forward at any time. Feedback is given via reports, graphs and tables that give information on profitability, market and operations.
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Feature List |
Decisions
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Six decisions: Aircraft purchases, Fares charged, marketing as a fraction of revenue, hiring and target service scope
Teams choose when to run forward and the simulation runs forward one quarter with each step, or teams can choose to repeat decisions over several quarters
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Reports
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Seven numerical reports showing relevant end of quarter financial and operational data
- Summary report
- Breakeven analysis
- Capacity and load
- Employees
- Financial report
- Market research
- Stock price and earnings
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Graphs
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A range of 19 graphs showing the history of key data items.
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Table data
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Seven tables showing the history of financial and service data (the same data items as is shown in the reports). Click on any table item to bring up a graph of the data.
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Game Notepad
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Use the Game Notepad to record strategies. In conjunction with easy copy and
paste facilities for Reports, Graphs and Tables this makes presentation of
results simple.
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Save Comments with games
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By default, comments in the game notepad can be saved with the game making it
easy to create new scenarios for students.
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Table of User Decisions
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Makes it easy to keep track of your actions.
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Table of all public variables
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Analysis of game results is made easy with this additional feature. Results are
presented in the same order as the reports / tables but on copying to Excel or
similar spreadsheet can be re-ordered to enable straightforward analysis.
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Custom Graphs
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Any item appearing in a table can be represented as a graph - simply double
click on the table heading.
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