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STOCKHOLDERS' FINAL DEBRIEF
Identify three important strategic decisions that your team made but did not provide the desired results. Defend your
decisions as the executive management team to the
Please prepare a PPT for tomorrow. Also include a slide on Reflections from the Simulation. We would use it in the
afternoon. I would ask you to present the same.
Our Strategies
And why we chose to do so
Strategic Decision - 1
Edge Performance 3
REASON : Avoiding unnecessary upgrades, which would
have led to high capital expenditures Egg Size 3
RESULT : Higher costs in the later stages, leading to lower Echo2 High-level 3
margins
Ebb2 Low-level 6.5
Strategic Decision - 2
Our main priority had been just a single segment: Low-cost Low-level 23.6%
segment
We also focused on other segments, but most of our time High-level 14.8%
and resources were spent for low-cost products
Traditional 10.3%
REASON : Focusing on a single segment instead of
diluting ourselves while focusing on multiple segments Performance 0%
RESULT : Although performed well in chosen segment, one
or two more segments could easily have been focused on Size 0%
Reflections
What we learned from the simulation
Strategy is designing a way to deal with a challenge. A good strategy,
Strategy therefore, must identify the challenge to be overcome, and design a way to
overcome it.
Why it matters?
We need to know this, so we can leverage good strategy to improve our companies while avoiding
bad strategies which may lead to our fall
Learnings from Industries
● One fact that we observed is that all metrics, like Sales, Profits, Contribution
Margins, Market Share etc. are vastly varied for companies within an industry. But
any one industry is quite similar to the others.
● Other thing we noticed is that other competitors influence our own decisions, and
even our thought processes. These include that prices, product specs, and the
segment in focus.
● The next course of action of the competitors can be gauged from the yearly reports.
Their investments can be used to predict their future plans, which can help us plan
accordingly.
Thank You