HONG KONG - Game Experience 7/16-20/07

Playing the game

Initially we had eight attendees and Yantl from ITP and myself. There were four teams of two as instructed in the material. Media team was Brian (SC) and Rocky, Hotel was Max (SC) and Gonzaque, Transport was Michael and Carl(SC replaced by Yantl – day 2) and Stadium team was Gary and Richard (SC).

Round 1 went well. The planning assignment went well where all teams reviewed and selected their respective projects and created a short list. All teams did not select the correct projects as detailed in the answer key so we discussed and I presented them the correct projects for each team and sent them to reduce the capacity of the selection as required from their existing capacity to 30.

Round 2 began the morning of day 2. Interesting incidents that occurred: Hotel team purchased land and permits for the wrong location and ran out of money. The steering committee member negotiated with the media team steering committee member and borrowed funds to correct their mistake. Since I was busy with the bank I did not see this happen but it came out in discussion that Max called and steering committee meeting but all members were not present and the transaction was questionable. In round 3, money was reimbursed. At the end of round 2 there was noticed disparity in goals based on the board. All teams except the media team met there goal of 10. Media was at 7.

Round 3 started with a steering committee meeting and a quick understanding that the teams were going to have to work together better to meet the overall goal. The build session was much more efficient and organized and pointed to achieving the goals. However one team was lagging behind on there individual goals and it wasn’t noticed. The steering committee established a chair and He (Max) oversaw all build and session activity. At the end of this round the stadium team had achieved 30 and hotel and transport were in the low 20’s and Media was at 14.

Round 4 started with a SC meeting and detailed funds analysis based on what was need to focus on three locations. No one still noticed the lagging behind of the media team in achieving their individual goal. It was about half way through this round that it finally was noticed and then all scrambled to help them get this done.

In summary comments on the game is that is was fun and interesting and the logistic problems were there but not insurmountable.

Don