Capsim creates dynamic business simulation-based learning experiences carefully tailored to client-specific learning goals.

The Capsim instructors tailor each business training seminar experience to:

• Provide participants with a new business model, that opens their minds to fresh thinking and learning
• Tailor each end-of-round debrief and discussion to client priorities
• Apply lessons from the simulation to the client’s business model
• Develop pre-set success measures, where appropriate, to a client’s key measurement ratios
• Add targeted learning tools – from pre- and post- questionnaires to peer evaluations and personal goal setting exercises –to expand the experience.

Capsim simulations are used in corporate training events to focus participants on the following learning goals:

Business Acumen

• Experience the impact each part of the business has on every other part
• Analyze and react to external market demands
• Interpret financial statements and market data, draw intelligence from raw numbers
• Practice at operating outside of a “silo” mind set

Finance

• Read and understand balance sheets, income statements and cash flow statements
• Use the information to improve business decision making
• Discover what the key financial ratios indicate about the client’s business as well as competitors’ businesses

Strategy

• Understand the importance of focus in strategic implementation
• Choose the right tactics to support strategic intent
• Stay on strategy under pressure in a fast-paced, competitive environment
• Evaluate competitors’ strategies and their implementation

Team Dynamics

• Set and adhere to goals, ground rules and team processes
• Practice decision-making as a team across all key areas of a business
• Understand the importance of cross-functional alignment
• Become mutually accountable for decisions
• Manage conflict