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How can we organize our company?
Organization
Saving Decisions
Working Together From Different Locations
Product Manager
Segment Manager
Functional Manager
Competitive Intelligence Officer
Coordination Concerns
Tactical Mistakes
Saving Decisions

Company decisions are made via an Excel® spreadsheet called Capstone.xls (available from the website's Downloads link). When you save decisions for Practice or Competition rounds, Capstone.xls asks if you want to upload them directly to the website or to a backup on your computer. Decisions saved to the website become part of your company’s Official Decision file. You can update Official Decisions as often as needed prior to the end of the round.

Decisions sent to the website can be saved by Product, Functional Area, or All Products and Areas. What decisions you send depends on organizational structure.

Communication between managers is essential; if one manager makes decisions for a specific product, other managers could overwrite those decisions if they upload by Functional Area or All Decisions.

Product decisions require funding, so Finance decisions should be made after all product decisions are complete. The website’s Decision Audit lists all decision changes.