Game—The Zu Zitter Game: A Course-Long Tool for Teaching Operations Management

References

• Allon G, Van Mieghem J (2010) The Mexico-China sourcing game: Teaching global dual sourcing. INFORMS Trans. Ed. 10(3): 105–112.Link, Google Scholar
• Anderson E, Morrice D (2000) A simulation game for teaching service-oriented supply chain management: Does information sharing help managers with service capacity decisions? Production Oper. Management 9(1):40–55.Crossref, Google Scholar
• Ben-Zvi T, Carton T (2007) From rhetoric to reality: Business games as educational tools. INFORMS Trans. Ed. 8(1):10–18.Link, Google Scholar
• Borges J, Dias T, Cunha J (2009) A new group-formation method for student projects. Eur. J. Engrg. Ed. 34(6):573–585.Crossref, Google Scholar
• Carter P, Hickman J, McDonald P, Patton R, Powell D (1986) Memorandum on applied and experiential learning curriculum development. AACSB Task Force Rep. (March).Google Scholar
• Chen F, Samroengraja R (2000) The stationary beer game. Production Oper. Management 9(1):19–30.Crossref, Google Scholar
• Chickering A, Gamson Z (1987) Seven principles for good practice in undergraduate education. AAHE Bull. 39(7):3–7.Google Scholar
• D’Amours S, Rönnqvist M (2013) An educational game in collaborative logistics. INFORMS Trans. Ed. 13(2):102–112.Link, Google Scholar
• Drake M, Mawhinney J (2006) The building blocks of supply chain management. INFORMS Trans. Ed. 6(3):28–37.Link, Google Scholar
• Gage N, ed. (1963) The Handbook of Research on Teaching (Rand McNally, Chicago).Google Scholar
• Gentry J (1990) Guide to Business Gaming and Experiential Learning. Association for Business Learning and Experiential Learning (ABSEL) (Nichols Publishing, Dubuque, IA).Google Scholar
• Gray I (2011) Learning from a classroom manufacturing exercise. INFORMS Trans. Ed. 11(2):77–89.Link, Google Scholar
• Griffin P (2007) The use of classroom games in management science and operations research. INFORMS Trans. Ed. 8(1):1–2.Link, Google Scholar
• Heineke J (1997) Enhancing learning using classroom game and exercises. Quality Management J. 4(4):32–42.Google Scholar
• Hoover J, Whitehead C (1975) An experiential-cognitive methodology in the first course in management: Some preliminary results. Buskirk R, ed. Simulation Games and Experiential Learning in Action: The Proceedings of the Second National ABSEL Conference, Bloomington, IN (Bureau of Business Research, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX), 25–30.Google Scholar
• Kolb D (1984) Experiential Learning: Experience as the Source of Learning and Development (Prentice-Hall, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, NJ).Google Scholar
• Pendegraft N (1997) Lego of my simplex. OR/MS Today 24(1):8–9.Google Scholar
• Polito T, Watson K, Groleau T (2009) Zarco, Incorporated: A Deming-inspired opening day operations management experiential learning activity. Retrieved August 8, 2013, http://www.tonypolito.com/wri_zarc.doc.Google Scholar
• Prince M (2004) Does active learning work? A review of the research. J. Engrg. Ed. 93(3):223–231.Crossref, Google Scholar
• Robinson A, Robinson M (1994) On tabletop improvement experiments of Japan. Production Oper. Management 3(3):201–216.Crossref, Google Scholar
• Rutherfoord R (2006) Using personality inventories to form teams for class projects. Proc. 7th Conf. Inform. Tech., SIGITE ’06 (ACM, New York), 9–14.Crossref, Google Scholar
• Scott T, Cross J II (2005) Team Selection Methods for Student Programming Projects, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 895 (Springer, New York), 295–303.Crossref, Google Scholar
• Snider B, Balakrishnan J (2013) Lessons learned from implementing web-based simulations to teach operations management concepts. INFORMS Trans. Ed. 13(3):152–161.Link, Google Scholar
• Sniedovich M (2002) OR/MS games: 1. A neglected educational resource. INFORMS Trans. Ed. 2(3):86–95.Link, Google Scholar
• Sterman J (1989) Modeling managerial behaviour: Misperceptions of feedback in a dynamic decision making experiment. Management Sci. 35(3):321–339.Link, Google Scholar
• Talluri K (2009) The customer valuation game as a basis for teaching revenue management. INFORMS Trans. Ed. 9(3):117–123.Link, Google Scholar
• Wolfe D, Byrne E (1975) Research on experiential learning: Enhancing the process. Buskirk R, ed. Simulation Games and Experiential Learning in Action: The Proceedings of the Second National ABSEL Conference, Bloomington, IN (Bureau of Business Research, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX), 25–336.Google Scholar
• Wood S (2004) 2004 Skinner Teaching Award winner: Littlefield Technologies. POMS Chronicle 11(3–4):7–8.Google Scholar
• Wood S (2008) Online games to teach operations. INFORMS Trans. Ed. 8(1):3–9.Link, Google Scholar
• Wright R, Ammar S (2009) Experiential learning activities for operations management. Accessed August 8, 2013, http://web.lemoyne.edu/∼wright/learn.htm.Google Scholar