Strategic Planning and Decision Making - Simulation for Manufacturing and Service Companies

Companies compete to be the best by making decisions that add or diminish value to their organization.

Interplay^TM from 10,000 Feet is a one-day, board-based business simulation that enables participants to experience most of the strategic and financial challenges that companies experience in real life. By understanding the bigger picture, people are able to make smarter decisions, execute more effectively, and better manage the interplay of forces that drive an organization's success.

Sales professionals and sales teams work together to manage the operations of competing businesses over a 4 year period with the goal of creating the most successful business possible. To succeed, each team must determine a strategic focus and then skillfully manage their financial and human resources, internal processes, marketing, customers and partners in line with that focus. Along the way they must plan and allocate resources, satisfy demanding customers and employees, make decisions under conditions of uncertainty, manage through critical 'Shift Happens' market events, prepare and report financial statements, and communicate to the larger market about their company.

• Develop an appreciation of the trade-offs that benefit companies
• Improve the ability to identify executive’s critical need
• Gain a better understanding of the countless strategic and tactical decisions that add complexity to achieving the success of the organization
• Understand how and why executive make the decisions that maximize ROI
• Gain a better understanding of financial concepts
• Improve personal effectiveness
• Enhance team collaboration

• Sales professionals who need to understand their customer's financial and operational dynamics
• Members of an cross-functional account team who need to understand their customer's financial and operational dynamic

• 1 day