The decision schedule developed by your instructor indicates the number of decision periods that you and
your co-managers will be running the company. You should use the practice decision(s) to become
familiar with the software, digest the kinds of information provided on the screens and in the reports, and
get a glimpse of what to expect before your management team’s decisions start to count. All of the
decision screens and the report screens have Help buttons linked to explanations of what the various
numbers mean, descriptions of cause-effect relationships, and advice and guidance on what to think
about—the Help sections, along with the short Video Tutorials, will answer most every question you have.
Anytime-Anywhere Access. You and your co-managers can access all aspects of BSG at any time
from any Internet-connected computer with a Web browser (such as Internet Explorer or Firefox or
Safari) and Flash 10.0 (or later)—if your PC lacks the needed Flash version, you will be automatically
directed to the Flash site where the latest version can be downloaded and installed free of charge in a few
minutes. When you go to your “Corporate Lobby” page at www.bsg-online.com and click on the Go to
Decisions/Reports button, BSG automatically links you directly to all of the screens for entering decisions
and viewing reports. When you are ready to exit a session and want to save any work you have done on
the decision entry screens, simply click the Save icon and all your decision entries will be saved in your
company’s files on the GLO-BUS server. The last decisions saved to the BSG server at the time of
the decision deadline are the ones used to generate the results.
The Corporate Lobby where you accessed this Player’s Guide functions as your “gateway” for all BSG
activities—it has links to the decisions/reports program, the recommended decision procedures, the
decision schedule, the two accompanying quizzes, the peer evaluations, and so on. Plus the Corporate
Lobby reports the latest interest rates and exchange rate impacts. Take a couple of minutes to familiarize
yourself with the features