Topic: Managing Groups and Teams
Description:
Background:
Read the article referenced below from the Harvard Business Review about a simulation technique used by the Department of Defense to facilitate strategic planning. The author points out how this same technique can be used by a number of businesses as well.
Required Reading:
This article can be found in the EBSCOHost collection, Academic Search Complete database.
Cares, Jeff; Miskel, Jim. (2007). Take Your Third Move First. Harvard Business Review, Vol. 85 Issue 3, 20-21
Write a 4- to 5-page paper with an introduction, conclusion, section headings, and references that answers the following questions:
1. How can coevolutionary gaming facilitate group decision making?
2. What are its limitations?
Keys to the Assignment:
The key aspects of this assignment that should be covered in your paper include:
• Define the problem: Explain how this strategic planning tool can be used to improve decision making. Be specific and use terminology and concepts from the background readings.
• Analyze the cause: Discuss how coevolutionary gaming would affect communication processes using the Johari window, and/or how it can impact group decision biases such as risky/cautious shift and groupthink.
• Propose a solution: Describe a situation in which coevolutionary gaming might impede decision making.