GM University - Business Simulations
 
Learning Objectives

Strategy

  • Establish a business strategy for a company and make mid-course corrections to keep the strategy viable
  • Understand the risks, rewards and difficulties of implementing various strategies
  • Learn the value of focus in strategy and its implementation
  • Choose the right tactical packages to support strategic intent
  • Drive the strategy through all functional areas
  • Create individual product and market segment strategies
  • Analyze competitor positioning and react to marketplace dynamics
  • Manage a new business model to stimulate "out of the box" thinking about your own industry

Finance

  • Effectively read balance sheets, income statements and cash flow statements
  • Use financial information to improve business decision making
  • Discover what the key financial ratios indicate about their own and their competitors' businesses
  • Understand such cash flow activities as long- and short-term borrowing, stock issuing and redemption and dividends
  • Analyze capital expenditures and their impact on company financial's
  • Analyze product value chain information



Teamwork

  • Work with a diverse collection of Managers in the decision-making process in all key areas of a business
  • Manage numerous responsibilities and demands in an extremely time
    constrained environment
  • Balance consensus with individual expertise, allowing all voices to be heard
  • Improve team dynamics - staying on strategy in a fast-paced, competitive environment
  • Accept accountability for decisions - good and bad
  • Provide leadership and "followership"