Organizing working sessions

Within each Decision Round, you and your teammates may choose to organize several working sessions in order to complete your decisions in due time. You can for instance make a detailed analysis of your results on day 1, make product upgrade and production plan decisions on day 2, make marketing budget and segmentation strategy decisions on day 3 and finalize everything on day 4.

It is a good idea to analyze your results on your own at your own pace. However, you will have to meet with your teammates at some point to exchange your findings, elaborate or refine your strategy and agree on a course of action for the period to come.

There are two ways to input your decisions into Markstrat. You may work all together in the same room, make your decisions collectively, and have one of you logged in Markstrat key in the decisions. You may also split the responsibilities across all teammates and have each of you enter his/her decisions into Markstrat from different computers, in parallel or at different points in time. Both options will work fine because all members of the same team share the same results and the same decisions and because Markstrat include a built-in mechanism to lock a specific decision form while it is used by one member.

Please note that the history of modifications made to decisions is not recorded. Hence, your current decisions will be deleted each time you submit a new set.