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International Journal of Production Economics
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Proceedings of the 2011 Winter Simulation Conference (WSC)
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Given the power of insight and learning that simulation provides, you might question why simulations are not more widely used. To try and understand this problem, a facilitated workshop was conducted at the MODSIM World Conference & Expo 2018 in Norfolk, Virginia, USA. This paper title is the same title used for this workshop session at the conference and it forms the main question asked of participants. The question was discussed to try and understand how our M&S community can reach new users and decision makers. To make sense of the discussion, a Problem Structuring Method (PSM) was employed. The Strategic Options Development Analysis (SODA) was the PSM used to facilitate the workshop and its resultant cognitive map is presented in the paper. Though the workshop did not provide an answer to how to ensure simulations are more widely used, it did provide insight into what stumbling problems M&S faces. For example, there is a need for easily understandable evidence to show the power .
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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access Proceedings