Log in on Glo-Bus. The Company Presentation link that appears on the Assignments menu -near the top of each company co-manager’s Corporate Lobby screen- directs the management team to prepare a presentation that needs to cover the following topics in your slides:
(1) A brief review of the financial performance of your company during the time you and your co-managers have run the company. 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
When you launch the Decisions and 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 easily be inserted into a PowerPoint presentation or Word document by clicking the Save-To-File button nearest each graph.
Once you have named and saved a picture file of a graph to your local drive, you can insert the picture into your PowerPoint presentation or Word document using the Insert tab provided in the Office program.
If you wish to create additional performance graphs, you may do so, but the above six bar graphs tell an adequate story about your company’s historical performance. Below are some suggestions for the number and content of your presentation slides. Adjust them accordingly to your specific needs and the time allocated for your presentation. I strongly suggest that you practice your presentation together a few times to ensure a smooth delivery as well as effective time management.
(2) A slide describing your strategic vision for the company.
(3) 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) A slide that sets forth your company’s competitive strategy in entry-level cameras 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 in entry-level cameras varies markedly from geographic region to geographic region.
(5) A slide that sets forth your company’s competitive strategy in multi-featured cameras 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 in multi-featured cameras varies markedly from one geographic region to another, such that your company is pursuing a meaningfully different competitive strategy in some regions versus others.
(6) A slide describing your company’s production strategy (as concerns use of overtime, outsourcing, and expansion of in-house assembly capacity) and workforce compensation/ training strategy.
(7) 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).
(8) A slide showing (a) those companies you consider to be your strongest/closest competitors in entry-level cameras as of the last year or two of the simulation and (b) those companies that are your strongest/closest competitors in the multi-featured segment of the marketplace.
(9) Another slide detailing the actions you would take to out-compete these close rivals in the next two years (assuming the simulation continues for several more years). Since the actions may differ as between entry-level and multi-featured cameras, you may well need 2 slides here.
(10) A slide briefly detailing the “lessons learned” about your experiences running a global company.
