Hit the Target

Dennis Meadows

Simulation & Gaming, 2016, vol. 47, issue 3, 389-393

Abstract: Hit the Target illustrates the effects that increasing delays and decision steps can have on the success of achieving a goal. The exercise can be used with a large audience. It requires only 15 minutes and no special materials to demonstrate how adding layers of management can reduce the accuracy of any hierarchical system. The game is described for use in reaching target levels for greenhouse gas concentrations. But it can easily be reframed to deal with an extremely diverse set of other issues.

Keywords: climate change; delays; overshoot; oscillation; hierarchical control (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1177/1046878116651368

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