Marketplace Stimulation March 29‚ 2011 Table of Contents Report to Executive Board of Corporate Headquarters 6 Financial and Market Performance for Second Year 7 Brief Business Plan 7 Brand Strategy 7 Pricing Strategy 8 Advertising Strategy 8 Sales Strategy 8 Business Strategy and Performance for Second Year 8 Overall Business Strategy 8 Departures from the Marketing Plan 8 Significant Events that Affected the Company 8 Current Situation in the Market 9 Competing in the Future 9 Lessons
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The marketplace simulation game was an overall great experience in terms of understanding how an organization works‚ what aspects should be considered while making decisions and how to coordinate between various departments. It was an excellent platform for me to learn how various functional departments in an organization work and how are they dependent on one another. Working in a team and coping with various challenges collectively helped me understand the importance of team work. I believe
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HRM Simulation Final Report Absenteeism Our goal for absenteeism was to decrease it from 498 to 120 by quarter 8 by maintaining high morale and offering health benefits to keep employees healthy. We also planned to keep our accident rate low in order to reduce absenteeism. We decided to focus the fringe benefits we offered on health benefits. We thought this strategy would work because we felt that absenteeism was caused by three factors: employee sick days (health)‚ employee injury claims (accident
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To: Bob CEO From: Robert Buffone‚ President‚ Iron Re: Marketplace Report Date: November 20‚ 2012 The market segments that were targeted are Travelers and Mercedes. The first brand I tried to sell was a portable laptop for the Travelers market. I assumed that it would have been a big hit since none of the other competitor brands created a laptop‚ only desktops. Compared to my competitors‚ Travelers accepted the laptop with the least amount of software instead of my product with all of the
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SUPPLY CHAIN TASK 2 Cheri Jill Upshaw August 12‚ 2014 Task two is the second task that applies the results of the Marketplace Simulation. In my simulation I named the company Airborne. I used a very conservative approach in all four quarters. The company did not have to borrow any money or pay any carrying charges for inventory. I did however‚ lose sales in all quarters due to higher than expected sales and product demand. Loss of sales can cause ill will and can cause you to lose customers
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Report concerning the decisions and results of Period 2. 09.01.2013 Business simulation Executive Summary This report provides the Chairman of the board an analysis of the decisions and the results of the Company 1 in Period 2. The focus is given on how our company organized the process of planning in the Period 2 and I tried to critically analyze the results compared to our plans. In period 2 our company was seemed to do better than the previous period (period 1)‚ but in my opinion period
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Decisions by Quarter Quarter 1: Organize team to do the job. • Focus on process of working as a team to achieve goals - Assess team members’ skills‚ personalities‚ and work styles - Set organizational and personal goals - Organize the work - Determine how to manage the organization - Establish leadership • Determine desired image of company - Designate a company name Quarter 2: Evaluate market opportunities‚ setup operations‚ and prepare for test market
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Developments in Business Simulation and Experiential Learning‚ Volume 26‚ 1999 STUDENT EXPERIENCES IN THE INTERNATIONAL COLLEGIATE BUSINESS POLICY GAME COMPETITION William D. Biggs‚ Beaver College Michelle Duffy‚ U.S. Navy David Leposa‚ Chrysler Credit Corporation Andrew Milne‚ Vital Solutions International‚ Inc. Eleanor Schwartz‚ Bell Atlantic ABSTRACT This condensed paper provides comments from four students who represented Beaver College in the 1998 International Collegiate Business Policy Game Competition
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KATHMANDU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT Simulation Project Report Submitted to: Sabin Bikram Pant Assistant Professor‚ KUSOM Submitted by: Santosh Dahal (13109) Miran Maharjan (13114) Anu Shah (13128) Shiva Hari Subedi (13135) January 4‚ 2014 Table of Contents Chapter I ....................................................................................................................................................... 3 1.1 Background ...................................................
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What have you learned Business simulation is simulation used for business training or analysis. Most business simulations are used for business acumen training and development. Learning objectives include: strategic thinking‚ financial analysis‚ market analysis‚ operations‚ teamwork and leadership. The business gaming community seems lately to have adopted the term business simulation game instead of just gaming or just simulation. The word simulation is sometimes considered too mechanistic
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