Lessons learned from bsg game

BSG Company PowerPoint

BSG Company Presentation (online)

You will collaborate with your team members to create a Powerpoint slideshow about your BSG company and then present it to the class in a 20-minute presentation. (1 point is deducted for every minute under 19 or over 22 minutes.)

Someone in your group will need to compile all of the video parts into one cohesive video if you cannot get together to create the video. The video will need to be posted on Youtube because the system cannot take the size of most of the videos. The group leader from each group needs to post a link to the video in the forum provided on MyRSU. The other group members should simply post their group leader’s name as their initial post. No concession will be made for being unable to post to Youtube. You need to work this out ahead of time. Remember, neither emailed nor late work is accepted. As a review exercise, you are required to watch at least three video presentations of other groups and post a reply (at least 20 words) for each. You must do this to receive your group’s earned points for this exercise.

This exercise is worth 100 points of the 600 total for the Business Strategy Game.

Your Powerpoint presentation should include the following topics and slides:

· Introduction page (2 pt.)

· Slide design—slides should be professional and business-like, but with interest. (10 pts.)

· A brief review of the financial performance of your company during the time you and your co-managers have run the company. (10 pts.)

This review should consist of charts showing the following:

· Trends in the company's annual total revenues

· Trends in the company's annual earnings per share (EPS)

· Trends in the company's annual return on equity investment (ROE)

· Trends in the company's annual credit rating

· Trends in the company's year-end stock price

· Trends in the company's annual image rating

As you know, when you launch the Decisions / Reports Program, there is a performance summary containing bar graphs showing your company's performance on each of the above six performance indicators. These graphs for the final year of the simulation can be saved to your local storage device and then inserted into a PowerPoint presentation or Word document. Double-click on the graph that you want to download and (depending on the web browser you are using) you will be prompted to save the graph to a PNG file. Once you have named and saved a picture file of a graph, you can insert the picture into a PowerPoint slide or Word document using the Insert tab at the top of the MS Office program.

If you wish to create additional performance graphs, you can do so, but the above six bar graphs tell an adequate story about your company's historical performance.

· A slide describing your strategic vision for the company. (4 pts.)

· A slide that shows what performance targets for EPS, ROE, credit rating, and image rating you and your co-managers would set for each of the next two years (assuming the simulation were to continue). You may also want to indicate a stock price target as well. (4 pts.)

· A slide that sets forth your company's competitive strategy for the internet market in some detail and how that strategy has evolved over the years you have managed the company. You may need to have more than one slide here if your company's strategy for the internet market varies markedly from geographic region to geographic region. (4 pts.)

· A slide that sets forth your company's competitive strategy for the wholesale market in some detail and how that strategy has evolved over the years. Again, more than one slide may be needed if your company's strategy for the wholesale market varies markedly from one geographic region to another, such that your company is pursuing a meaningfully different competitive strategy in some regions versus others. (4 pts.)

· A slide that sets forth your company's competitive strategy for the private-label market in some detail and how that strategy has evolved over the years you have managed the company. (4 pts.)

· A slide describing your company's production strategy (as concerns plant capacity and location, use of overtime, and work force compensation/training strategy). (4 pts.)

· A slide describing your company's finance strategy (as concerns dividends, use of debt versus equity, stock issues/repurchases, actions to achieve/maintain a strong credit rating, etc.) You should clearly describe your company's dividend policy during the period you have managed the company. Here, you should also set forth what sort of dividend increases, if any, you would likely consider paying out in the next two upcoming years (given the EPS targets you have established). (4 pts.)

· A slide showing (1) those companies you consider to be your strongest/closest competitors in the internet market as of the last year or two of the simulation, (2) those companies that are your strongest/closest competitors in the wholesale market, and (3) those companies that are your strongest/closest competitors in the private-label market. (10 pt.)

· One or more slides detailing the actions you would take to out-compete these close rivals in the next two years (if the simulation were to continue). Since the actions may differ between internet, wholesale, and private-label, you may well need more than one slide here. (10 pts.)

· A set of slides detailing the "lessons learned" about crafting a winning strategy and about what the managers of a company should or should not do for a company to be financially and competitively successful in a head-to-head battle against shrewdly-managed rival companies. (10 pts.)