As you work through your company’s decisions you can save them either as Official Decisions or as a Draft. The simulation will use your Official Decisions when the round results are calculated. You can update Official Decisions as often as needed prior to the round deadline.
Draft decisions allow you to perform “what ifs” in a personal workspace separate from your company’s Official Decisions. Draft decisions are not recorded in the Audit Trail.
Periodically and when you have completed your decisions and/or want to share your decisions with your teammates, be sure to use File > Update Official Decisions. All Official Decisions are recorded in the Audit Trail.
Official Decisions can be saved by Product, Functional Area, or All Products and Areas. What decisions you send depends on how your company is organized.
Draft decisions can also help with the following scenario. Suppose two participants are working on their team’s decisions at the same time in different locations. Participant One updates Official Decisions. A few minutes later, Participant Two wants to update Official Decisions.
Participant Two will be warned that somebody (Participant One) has changed decisions since Participant Two began working.
Participant Two can save Draft decisions then view the new Official Decisions by selecting Undo > Undo to Official Decisions. To return to the Draft decisions, Participant Two would reopen the spreadsheet and select Continue Draft Decisions, then merge them into Official Decisions by selecting File > Update Official Decisions.
Decision Management
As executives, all company managers have the authority to create and upload decisions. Communication and coordination between managers is crucial. For example, if one manager makes decisions for a specific product, other managers could overwrite those decisions if they upload by Functional Area or All Decisions.
Product decisions require funding, so Finance decisions should be made after all product decisions are complete.
 Keep the box unchecked if you are going to continue to make decisions. |
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 You have the option of checking the box if your decisions are done. If you change your mind, simply save again and do not check the box. |
As an optional measure, you can tell your instructor that you feel the round's decisions are final. Doing so will not lock you out if you change your mind, you will be able to fine tune your decisions up until the round is processed.
You do not have to check the box. When the round advances, the last set of decisions saved to the website will be used.
Before checking the box, confirm with all teammates that their decisions are final.
Working Together at Different Locations
If you are working together via a conference call or instant message, you can easily share decisions with others in your group. Simply use File > Update Official Decisions then ask the group to go to the Undo menu item and select Undo to Official Decisions.
When the screen refreshes, your decisions will display for everyone.