Submitting your team file for server

You need to submit your decisions for run when you are finished with your decisions and want to start the next period of decisions. You can submit you decisions to the BOSS simulator only when your decisions are error-free and only if your team is activated (see section 2.6 to learn how to activate your team).

Select the command “Submit for run” in the “HOME > Control Panel” menu; a confirmation message pops up.  If you confirm the operation, the simulation model will be applied to your decisions. Fresh data will be generated, corresponding to the new market situation.  Please note that this operation cannot be cancelled.  Thus, do not submit for run until you and your teammates have made the best decisions possible.  After the run, you may start a new decision cycle.

The mathematical model of BOSS has been designed by a team comprising experts in simulation as well as experts in Blue Ocean Strategy theory. The model provides a good representation of the video game console market and of its consumers, competitors, distribution channels, etc. The BOSS model has been calibrated to reinforce learning; hence, it may not always behave as the real world does. For instance, the model has been designed to underreact to poor decisions; you will not go bankrupt even if you make really bad decisions. Similarly, the model has been designed to overreact to excellent decisions; if you design an excellent Blue Ocean offering, your profits will increase exponentially. Finally, the representation of time is somewhat condensed in BOSS. For example, whilst it may take 5 years or more for an excellent Blue Ocean offering to be imitated at scale in the real world (depending on the industry), it will only take 3 years in BOSS.