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

Glossary of Manufacturing and Other Industry Financial Terms

Glossary of Manufacturing/Other Financial Terms

“Being in IT I don’t get the opportunity for the experiences in “running” the business. The two day session helped me learn more about what it takes to run an Insurance Company than I have learned thus far in 6 years and would probably take another 5.”
– Program Management Director, November 2016