{"id":35471,"date":"2018-02-20T23:50:30","date_gmt":"2018-02-20T23:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writemyessayfree.com\/cesim-global-challenge-report-and-ppt-team-xs-investors-report-lettertoshareholders"},"modified":"2017-08-16T06:33:01","modified_gmt":"2017-08-16T06:33:01","slug":"cesim-global-challenge-report-and-ppt-team-xs-investors-report-lettertoshareholders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/cesim-global-challenge-report-and-ppt-team-xs-investors-report-lettertoshareholders\/","title":{"rendered":"Cesim Global challenge report and ppt Team X\u2019s Investors Report LettertoShareholders"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Cesim Global challenge report and ppt
Team X\u2019s Investors Report<\/p>\n

LettertoShareholders<\/p>\n

TeamX is pleased to report that your firmis the world\u2019s leading cell phone provider. With the highest \u2026.. (1 paragraph overview of company competitive position)<\/p>\n

TeamX\u2019s success can be attributed to: \u2026\u2026<\/p>\n

TeamX is focused on maximizing shareholder value through \u2026\u2026 Unlike its competitors, TeamX\u2019s financial performance \u2026\u2026<\/p>\n

TeamX is also able to achieve consistent performance by \u2026\u2026.<\/p>\n

Looking forward, TeamX plans to continue to focus its attention on \u2026\u2026
ReviewofFinancialPerformance
Selected Financial Indicators<\/p>\n

After struggling for several years, TeamX has been able to establish a strong financial
position. This position is reflected in two key \u2026 (for example Operating Profits &
Cumulative Share Holder Value)<\/p>\n

I. Operating Profits: \u2026\u2026 (provide brief historic review relative to industry competitors)<\/p>\n

II. Cumulative Share Holder Value: \u2026..(provide brief historic review relative to industry competitors)<\/p>\n

Management\u2019sDiscussion<\/p>\n

Global Market Conditions
The cell phone market has been \u2026\u2026 (describe overall market conditions)<\/p>\n

Product Portfolio
TeamX offers its customers \u2026.(describe product portfolio)<\/p>\n

Foreign Operations
TeamX manages its global operations to maximize flexibility. By producing all technologies in both the U.S. and Asia, TeamX is able to \u2026..<\/p>\n

Research and Development
At the center of TeamX\u2019s production cost focus is R&D. Without R&D, Team X would not have early access to technologies that allow themto move further and faster down the production cost curve than their competitors. The amount spent on R&D and licensing is not as important as how and when the spending occurs. In order to take full advantage of the benefits of R&D companies must focus on careful planning. Not having the ability to produce an emerging technology in its acceptance stage places a company at a severe disadvantage for that technology\u2019s entire life.<\/p>\n

Without planning, companies are forced to make large, lump sumexpenditures to acquire the ability to produce new technologies. These expenditures could be spread over several years to minimize the overall cost of acquiring these technologies. An example of this occurred \u2026. (provide example)<\/p>\n

Market Share
TeamX is focused on \u2026\u2026 (present your market share strategy)
Competitor Analysis<\/p>\n

The cell phone industry operates in a competitive environment. In order to succeedin this environment an organization must understand its competitors\u2019 strengths and weaknesses and anticipate how these strengths and weaknesses may effect its own team\u2019s strategic position. For example, product demand is directly related to the technologicalcompetence of competing companies. When several companies hold the same level of technological competence TeamX\u2019s ability to sell cell phones decreases dramatically. This was evident in year \u2026\u2026 As a result, demand was spread over (# of teams) leading to weak industry wide demand.TeamX has built a considerable production cost advantage over its competitors. However, this competitive advantage will not last indefinitely. TeamY, the nearest competitor to TeamX, has production costs very similar to TeamX. In addition, TeamX has significantly more production capacity. Although having large production capacity is a liability during times of weak demand, such as the ones characterizing the current market, it becomes an advantage during times of strong demand. With larger capacity, TeamY has the ability to grow its sales and thus its market share more rapidly. Understanding the threat that this presents, TeamX has begun increasing plant investment.<\/p>\n

In the competitive cell phone industry a company\u2019s actions are as much determined the competencies oftheir competition as their own competencies. Therefore, it is important
tomake decisions on a relative basis. TeamY, with relatively the same production costs and technological competence as TeamX threaten to remove TeamX fromits industry leading position. However, TeamX was able prevent this fromoccurring. As mentioned above, Team|Y possesses more production capacity than TeamX. Therefore, TeamY is required to generate a higher level of sales than TeamX in order to amortize the costs associated with their additional capacity. Given this notion, TeamY would be hurt relatively more than TeamX if it did not generate a high level of sales. Realizing this TeamY lowered its prices stealing demand away from TeamBlue thus preventing themfromgenerating the sales necessary to amortize thelarge number of plants they operate. Although this may have hurt TeamX in an absolute sense, it benefited TeamX on a relative basis. Distinguishing between absolute and relative is an important factor behind TeamX\u2019s success.<\/p>\n

BusinessOutlook<\/p>\n

TeamX expects industry demand to \u2026.. This will have implications on TeamX\u2019s strategy. TeamX is currently utilizing its plants at ??% capacity. This exceeds the optimal production level of between 75% to 85%. In order to lower capacity utilization without sacrificing TeamX\u2019s market leading position two actions will be taken. TeamX will \u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026
SimulationLearningOutcomes<\/p>\n

Logistics<\/p>\n

Managing an organization with operations in various regions is extremely complex. This complexity was not fully appreciated until participating in this simulation. A global organization must deal with an array of problems that a national organization never faces. These include issues such as the managing of transfer prices to avoid income taxes; the movement of cash between divisions to meet short-termneeds; and the shifting of production to take advantage of favorable factorcosts. All of these issues came into play during the decision-making process for year nine. Production needed to be shifted from Asia to the U.S., cash needed to be reallocated to the U.S. fromboth Europe and Asia,
and transfer prices need to be adjusted upward to the European market.<\/p>\n

Demand
Several factors play a role in determining demand. These include factors other than simply price and marketing. Not only is demand determined by pricing and promotion, it is determined by the actions ofcompetitors as well as existing market share. This was not fully understood prior to the simulation. The simulation provided a dynamic, learning environment in which multiple demand determinants were allowed to interact in a
realisticmanner.<\/p>\n

Competitor Activities
In the business world, the actions of competitors are unpredictable and in many cases irrational. This makes it difficult to formulate decisions that take into account the actions ofcompetitors. TeamX attempted to be proactive by anticipating competitor movement and responding accordingly. Unfortunately, teams often acted in a counter- intuitive manner causing great turbulence in the market. For example, in year ??, TeamX expected \u2026\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n

Risk Assessment
Being too risk-adverse is risky in itself. Early in the simulation, TeamX was too cautious in regards to spending for R&D and licensing. By not spending enough, Team X was placed at a severe disadvantage for the rollout of technology ??. This disadvantage was so great that TeamX was forced to abandon all attempts to be competitive in this technology. The technology ??blunder proved to be a valuable lesson that followed TeamX throughout the entire simulation. Often being risk adverse means taking a loss to subsidize future growth. Not realizing this in the first years of operation, TeamX was forced to incur much higher levels of risk in later rounds.<\/p>\n

Learning
TeamX realized the benefits of learning early in the simulation. This enabled it to avoid repeating its own mistakes, and the mistakes ofits competitors. TeamX used the knowledge gained fromthis case to \u2026\u2026
FinalRemarks<\/p>\n

The Global Simulation provided an excellent opportunity for TeamX to build managerial skills. By forcing students to make decisions in a dynamic environment, the global simulation was able to build business skills in ways traditional textbooks are not able to do.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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