Distributor Business Today
Broad Overview
Distributor Business Today is a board-based, computer assisted simulation designed to provide business insights to your employees. This simulation enables managers and employees to the business through their everyday activities and decisions. This understanding helps managers transcend traditional notions about functional barriers and ultimately leads to improved decision making and problem solving, and therefore improved company performance.
Simulation Journey
Preprogram: Stakeholder engagement to identify business focus, challenges & relevant information to align content & customize post program learning transfer assignments
During Program: Simulation experience with analysis and reflection on behaviours & actions. Templates to facilitate structured conversations and action planning
Post program: Micro learning reinforcement & assignments using digital platform to establish new behavioral habits ,maximize learning & business impact
| No. Participants | 12 to 18 |
| Duration | 2 Days |
| Partner | Business Today International |
Program Outcome
- Experiencing and understanding the interdependence of various departments within the business.
- Understanding the trade-offs whilst making decisions around marketing, penetration, pricing, sales mix and calculating the effects on margins.
- Analyze your company financial statements and how decisions made by the sales force impact on these and managing cash flow.
- Product mix - why it is important to focus time and effort in proportion to gross margin, and not just ease of sale.
- Evaluating customer service and its impact on profitability.
- Analyze debtors and bad debt. The necessity of assessing which customers are high risk and what damage this can cause to cash flow and profits.
- Making and implementing decision and assessing results within the broader business context in terms of cross-functional dependencies, allocation of limited resources, competitor activity and business performance
Business Impact
- Improve business & financial acumen
- Enhanced critical, analyical thinking & decision making
- Increased enagement & collaboration with internal stakeholders