How to Start a Simulation

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It seems like to start the process you need some sort of going in question. How often is it true that in the process of doing this simulation or whatever, people will actually find new things they never thought of? That's where it comes back to sort of the process that you've got right. It's not necessarily one big simulation, because we make all the simulation away in each of those cycles.

When it comes to simulation, we're all really asking the same question: are we living in one? Alas! We did not tackle that on this episode. Instead, with Julie Hoyer as a guest co-host while Moe is on leave, we were joined by Frances Sneddon, the CTO of Simul8, to dig into some of the nuts and bolts of simulation as a tool for improving processes. It turns out that effectively putting simulations to use means focusing on some of the same foundational aspects of effectively using analytics, data science, or experimentation: clearly defining the problem, tapping into the domain experts to actually understand the process or scenario of focus, and applying some level of "art" to complement the science of the work! For complete show notes, including links to items mentioned in this episode and a transcript of the show, visit the show page.