Introduction to the BOSS Application
Your work on the BOSS application will follow a decision-making cycle that will repeat itself for each simulated year, i.e. 9 times in total.
1. At the beginning of each year, you and your team will be given the business unit Annual Report and a series of Market Studies which cover the previous year’s activities. In the first year, you and your team should begin analyzing this information and then start formulating a strategy for the Blue Buddies organization and agree on objectives.
In the subsequent years, you should appraise your results, check if you have met your objectives and possibly review your initial strategy and decide on what changes should or should not be made.
2. The previous step will lead to a series of decisions, which will be input into the decision forms provided.
3. You will then submit your decisions to the BOSS software that will compile the data and generate the results of the year in question. At this stage, you are ready to start a new cycle.
