Business Challenge™ – The Manufacturing Business Simulation!

A Management and Leadership Development Course for Manufacturing and Other Industries

Let’s take a walk – in the CEO’s shoes!

Does your management team need to be more strategic, financially aware, customer focused, and business savvy?

Competing Teams will lead and manage multi-billion-dollar automotive manufacturing companies. Their goals: build market share, improve profits – and crush the competition!

Teams make marketing, technology, R&D, production, and financing decisions. As they do, they keep their eyes on Profit Margin, Inventory, Return on Assets (ROA), Customer Satisfaction, and other KPIs.

And if they need a few hundred-million in extra cash, no problem. They can float a bond or issue new stock shares. But beware – bonds bring interest payments, and shareholders become unfriendly if they don’t get enough Return on Equity (ROE) and dividend yield…

The Business Challenge can be run as a live or virtual class over 2-4 days.

Business Challenge Dashboard PriSim’s Manufacturing Simulation Dashboard

  • Business Acumen: see the big picture and align cross-functional decisions across the entire business
  • Strategic Thinking and Long-Term Positioning: current-state SWOT analysis, future-state mission-planning using the MOST framework, differentiation, and competitive analysis
  • Leadership and Teamwork: a team-based competition, distinguishing between leadership and management, and working as a team to make decisions
  • Financial Statement Analysis: Income Statement, Balance Sheet, Cash Flow Statement, and Product Contribution by product line
  • Financial Ratio Analysis (KPIs): Return on Sales, ROA, ROE, Inventory Turns, Leverage/ Gearing, Asset Turnover, and Current Ratio
  • Corporate Finance Decisions: short and long-term debt, equity financing, stock valuation, and dividends

Sim Tip Videos Short videos highlighting specific dynamics within the Business Challenge

“If you want to improve your Association’s value proposition to its membership, partner with PriSim. PriSim delivers a hands-on learning experience unlike any other. The unique curriculum, coupled with the Insurance Business Simulation, left our Association’s emerging leaders feeling empowered and better equipped to apply proven business and financial strategies and concepts to insurance operations. It is by far the most highly rated educational experience we have ever delivered as an association.”
– Chief Executive Officer and Executive Vice President, Independent Insurance Agents of Wisconsin, November 2017