MIKES’ BIKES REFLECTION

Mike 's Bikes Project Reflection

Mike 's Bikes is a program that simulates an imaginary bike-selling company . It allows the user or player to make corporate decisions on situations that can either cause the success or the failure of the company . The program 's objective is to make sure that your company monopolizes the bike-selling market . In Business 101 , each student is in charge of his own company . All the corporate decisions that can make or break the company is his responsibility alone . One should make good decisions or else his company

will fail its objective . At first , the process and rules of the system may seem complicated but with the right decisions and strategies , one can make his company the best in the class

In Business 102 however , each imaginary company is no longer the responsibility of one individual anymore . Instead , the task of making the necessary corporate decisions is placed upon a group of people . At first , I thought it would be easier with groups , since more people would mean more ideas and better decisions . I thought that having more people will lessen the pressure since all members should share the responsibilities with each other

But I have learned through this experience that having more people also means more conflicts in ideas and decision-making . Also , if your groupmates are not responsible enough , it might mean that you will have to do all the work by yourself without support

It was good thing that I became a part of a group that was made up of responsible people . We were able to conduct regular meetings where in we discussed the different strategies that we would implement for the company , as well as problems that we may encounter in making those decisions . Although conflicts were unavoidable since the group members were chosen by the professor , we have learned to respect each other 's opinion , just the way we respect our own

Our company started very stable and successful at the beginning , and all of us were satisfied . Despite having different beliefs and opinions we learned how to come up with good decisions for the company . However when the threat of competition became greater and the danger of being overrun by other companies loomed before us , we have made several decisions that may have caused the company considerable market share loss . In those times , more conflicts in decisions arose and I realized that even though the team had the same objectives , each member has his own way to achieve that objective . For example , while the main goal of the company is to become the leader in the bicycle industry , one person wanted to do this by raising our prices based on the competition another believed that we should set short term goals for the company and work on them while another wanted to implement long term goals . Some of us even had long discussions as to how the company should spend its budget money and how much of that money needs...