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Description:
This proven Business Acumen Simulation is a full enterprise business simulation that focuses on cross-functional thinking, cross-functional decision making, strategic planning and decision making.
Participants are grouped into teams and given a hypothetical company to manage for two years. Each team establishes a vision, sets objectives, implements strategies, and fully controls its organization. Each quarter, teams make over 28 different decisions that affect their bottom line, concurrent and future decisions, and other teams’ results. Teams receive feedback on their profitability, cash flow, sales and production reports, quality status, customer surveys and competitive benchmarks, human resource issues, and on the effectiveness of their overall decisions.
Several brief case studies from the company’s recent past are used to teach and reinforce the concepts explored in the simulation. Company executives co-facilitate to ensure that the simulation has the highest relevance to and impact on what participants need to do and the realities of the business.
The overall objective of this three-day computer-based business simulation is to increase managers’ ability to make better business decisions, create greater alignment around executing initiatives, and design more efficient cross-functional processes. The program and customized case studies provide managers with a real/near-real, hands-on experience that naturally breaks down business silos and facilitates team building in a dynamic environment.
Managers will be introduced to new skills and be put in situations where they must use and fine-tune them. At the conclusion of the program, they will be better able to:.
Objectives:
Team Presentations
At the end of the simulation each team makes a final presentation to the group summarizing its simulation activities in four key areas:
Each team receives a computer-generated performance analysis. The performance analysis details how each team’s company performed relative to the competition and provides the basis for an informed debriefing session.
Target Audience:
Leadership, Management and High Potentials
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