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The Business Strategy Game Facilitation

PolStrat offers three choices to facilitate the Business Strategy Game. Our consultants can conduct a half a day seminar before the strategic game, process game results for each simulated year, and conduct a post-mortem analysis.  The actual game is played remotely via web.  The decisions and each year results are distributed via e-mail. See below for our three offerings.

The Business Strategy Game for Beginners

  • half a day on-site seminar to introduce the game and strategic decision making
  • 2-cycle practice session
  • 7-cycle business simulation - decisions for each cycle submitted via e-mail
  • Industry analysis published via e-mail after each cycle.
  • half a day post-mortem seminar to analyze decisions players made during the game, and their impact on a simulated company operation.

For more information on pricing click email.

The Business Strategy Game is the most widely played computer simulation in the strategic management market. The geographic scope of the market is global. Each company in the industry is managed by players who must match their strategic wits against the other company competition.

The company that players manage has plants to operate, a work force to compensate, distribution expenses and inventories to control, capital expenditure decisions to make, marketing and sales campaigns to wage, a website to operate, sales forecasts to consider, and ups and downs in exchange rates, interest rates, and the stock market to take into account.

This global industry simulation is a very powerful hand-on exercise for conveying the challenge of managing a business in the 21st century and for giving players valuable practice in how to exercise good business judgment. Because the elements of The Business Strategy Game cut across many different areas of company operations, the exercise helps players integrate material from many different core courses in business, look at specific functional decisions from the standpoint of the company as a whole, and see the importance of thinking strategically about a company's competitive position and future prospects. Players of the simulation learn an enormous amount from working with the company and industry data, exploring strategic options, and trying to unite production, marketing, finance, and human resource decisions into a coherent business strategy that produces good results.  See a sample FIR simulation report after 7 cycles of simulation  (pages 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 or all). This is one of a set of 4 user reports that are created after each simulation cycle (FIR, benchmarking, competitive analysis, and detailed company report)..

For more information on the Business Strategy Game click email.

The Business Strategy Game for Intermediate Players

  • half a day on-site seminar to introduce the game and strategic decision making
  • 2-cycle practice session
  • 10-cycle business simulation - decisions for each cycle submitted via e-mail
  • Industry analysis published via e-mail after each cycle.
  • half a day post-mortem seminar to analyze decisions players made during the game, and their impact on a simulated company operation.

For more information on pricing click email.

The Business Strategy Game for Advanced Players

  • 12-cycle business simulation - decisions for each cycle submitted via e-mail
  • Industry analysis published via e-mail after each cycle.

For more information on pricing click email.

 

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