Business Acumen Programs

In addition to our unique ability to create fully customized strategic programs, BTS offers a variety of business acumen standard programs that can be tailored to meet your learning objectives.

Strategic Alignment & Business Acumen

• Business Simulator
  Provides users with a clear understanding of the total business picture. It enhances decision-making skills and enables participants to recognize the effectiveness of major business decisions at both the strategic and tactical levels.

  

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• Industry Simulations
  To successfully compete in a highly competitive and demanding global marketplace, companies must develop sales and marketing strategies that increase operational efficiency and drive profitability.

  

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• KTB1: Assessing Financial Performance (Online)
  The purpose and structure of the Income Statement, Balance Sheet and Cash Flow Statement are illuminated through interactive exercises and micro-simulations. Learners practice using these financial statements and key ratios to assess company performance in terms of profitability, efficiency, and capital management.

  

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• KTB2: Competing for Customer Value (Online)
  Through this engaging online experience, learners calculate the lifetime value of a customer, discover how market share works, and realize the importance of market forecasting.

  

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• KTB3: Achieving Return on Strategy(Online)
  This course explores the fundamentals of strategy, including strategic analysis and alignment, and explains what constitutes competitive advantage for a company. Through a series of activities, learners apply the concepts of strategy, competitive advantage, and Return On Investment (ROI) to the company and the industry.

  

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• KTB4: Managing Growth and Profitability (Online)
  In this online course, learners develop a comprehensive appreciation for the fundamental drivers of revenue, expense and profitability. Cost and breakeven analysis are explored, as well as connecting overall profitability to shareholder value creation.

  

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• Leading Strategy Into Action
  Is a simulation that can stand-alone or be combined with other workshop components on strategy implementation. The simulation gives participants the experience of implementing organizational strategy.

  

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• Olympus Executive Simulation
  Olympus simulates primarily the management of processes, relationships, and capabilities. Successful teams must scan the environment, develop operating plans, implement and manage change, develop key strategic alliances and relationships, and maximize the contribution of the members of the management team.

  

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• Products Simulator
  In the Products simulation, participants manage a fictional company for long-term success. The program gives individuals an opportunity to experience the difficulties and challenges faced by a products-based business in a competitive environment.

  

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• Services Simulations
  Services is an interactive, competitive, computer-based business simulation designed to illustrate the process of navigating a company through a changing, technology-driven service-based industry. Services simulates the management of processes, capabilities, and customers.

  

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• Why Finance Matters (Online)
  Why Finance MattersTM engages learners because the instruction is delivered in a story setting complete with colorful characters and full motion video. What’s more, because the learning is Web-based, getting around is a simple matter of point and click.

  

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BTS Business Acumen Programs