Prep for Business Simulation Presentation Report GM105

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The Company Presentation link that appears on the Assignments menu near the top of each company co-managers
Corporate Lobby screen directs the management team to prepare a presentation that covers (1 their companys
performance for all decision rounds! (" their strategic vision for the company! (# performance targets for the ne$t
year or t%o! assuming the simulation continued on! (& their companys present strategy and ho% it has evolved!
(' %hich companies they consider to be their closest competitors! (( the moves they %ould make over the ne$t
several years to %in out over their close competitors and improve their companys performance and market
standing! and () lessons learned*
+ore speci,cally! company co-managers are given the follo%ing directions in putting together their presentation-
.nless other%ise instructed! your presentation should include the follo%ing topics and slides-
A brief revie% of the ,nancial performance of your company during the time you and your co-
managers have run the company*
This revie% should consist of charts sho%ing the follo%ing-
o Trends in the companys annual total revenues
o Trends in the companys annual earnings per share (/P0
o Trends in the companys annual return on e1uity investment (23/
o Trends in the companys annual credit rating
o Trends in the companys year-end stock price
o Trends in the companys annual image rating
As you kno%! %hen you launch the 4ecisions and 2eports program! there is a performance
summary containing bar graphs sho%ing your company5s performance on each of the above si$
performance indicators* These graphs for the ,nal year of the simulation can easily be inserted
into a Po%erPoint presentation or 6ord document by clicking the 0ave-To-7ile button nearest each
graph* 3nce you have named and saved a picture ,le of a graph to your local drive you can insert
the picture into your Po%erPoint presentation or 6ord document using the 8nsert tab provided in
the 39ce program*
8f you %ish to create additional performance graphs! you can do so! but the above si$ bar graphs
tell an ade1uate story about your companys historical performance*
A slide describing your strategic vision for the company*
A slide that sho%s %hat performance targets for /P0! 23/! credit rating! and image rating you and
your co-managers %ould set for each of the ne$t t%o years (assuming the simulation %ere to
continue* :ou may also %ant to indicate a stock price target as %ell*
A slide that sets forth your companys competitive strategy in entry-level cameras in some detail
and ho% that strategy has evolved over the years you have managed the company* :ou may need
to have more than one slide here if your companys strategy in entry-level cameras varies
markedly from geographic region to geographic region*
A slide that sets forth your companys competitive strategy in multi-featured cameras in some
detail and ho% that strategy has evolved over the years* Again! more than one slide may be
needed if your companys strategy in multi-featured cameras varies markedly from one
geographic region to another! such that your company is pursuing a meaningfully di;erent
competitive strategy in some regions versus others*
A slide describing your companys production strategy (as concerns use of overtime! outsourcing!
and e$pansion of in-house assembly capacity and %ork force compensation< training strategy
A slide describing your companys ,nance strategy (as concerns dividends! use of debt versus
e1uity! stock issues<repurchases! actions to achieve<maintain a strong credit rating! etc* :ou
should clearly describe your companys dividend policy during the period you have managed the
company* =ere! you should also set forth %hat sort of dividend increases! if any! you %ould likely
consider paying out in the ne$t t%o upcoming years (given the /P0 targets you have established*
A slide sho%ing (1 those companies you consider to be your strongest<closest competitors in
entry-level cameras as of the last year or t%o of the simulation and (" those companies that are
your strongest<closest competitors in the multi-featured segment of the marketplace*
3ne or more slides detailing the actions you %ould take to out-compete these close rivals in the
ne$t t%o years (assuming the simulation continues for several more years* 0ince the actions may
di;er as bet%een entry-level and multi-featured cameras! you may %ell need " slides here*
A set of slides detailing the >lessons learned? about crafting a %inning strategy and about %hat
the managers of a company should or should not do for a company to be ,nancially and
competitively successful in a head-to-head battle against shre%dly-managed rival companies*