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Advanced Business War Games

The quality of strategy decisions is greatly enhanced by creating and testing strategists’ ideas in a safe environment. Think of war games as the strategy equivalent of clinical trials, flight simulators, and sparring partners, all together. That’s what an ACS business war game is about..

“The war game designed and facilitated by ACS delivered two game-changing results. First, we were able to arrive at a decision on a very tricky and challenging subject where such a decision had eluded us for months. Second, we created a new cross-functional internal experience that is so groundbreaking that it has unleashed new energies in our team.” — C-level executive, multi-billion-dollar global company (names withheld for competitive reasons)

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Strategy Decision Tests

We strategists are going to make decisions no matter what. Unfortunately, being human, we’re not particularly good at calculating and contrasting possible futures. That’s what strategy decision tests, also called decision tournaments, are for. They evaluate which of your strategy options is realistically likely to work best and bear the least risk, by whatever measure(s) of success you choose, in difficult, fluid, even discontinuous environments. No shortcuts: we test all the options and combinations you can think of. That can be millions. (We’ve done it.)

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Strategy Simulations

A group of strategists are brainstorming, testing their ideas, in real time, with a powerful strategy simulator tailored to their business. We provide the software, based on the technologies we use in our advanced business war games. And you can own it.

We at ACS have decades of experience creating innovative, customized strategy-simulation models and simulation software. Companies use our strategy simulators to make much better business decisions, to test what-if questions, and to teach competitive strategy skills to their managers. Our simulation solutions don’t fall into the common traps of conventional analytic models, such as extrapolating the past into the future, looking only at financial information, or ignoring competition by focusing only on the client company.

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How to Think Better: Workshops on Great Strategic Thinking

ACS has delivered management-development and executive-education programs around the world. Our highly interactive, thought-provoking programs can be customized for the specific operations and scenarios of your industry. These programs range from one-hour to two-day in-house seminars facilitated by ACS experts. We have even produced easy-to-use software tools that support individual learning.

“Mark Chussil conducted a workshop on the strategic planning process at our company in April 2010. The workshop was designed to get participants to realize inherent human biases that have a deep impact on the outcome of strategic planning. Mark used numerous examples and engaged the participants in role-playing. Feedback from my team members was excellent. I recommend Mark’s workshop to anyone interested in improving a strategic planning process.” — Cyrille Michel, Senior Vice President, Blount, Inc.

“Mark took a unique approach that really grabbed my attention. In addition to enlightening lectures, he made effective use of small group exercises that energized and focused our management group in ways I’ve never seen before. After just one day we made tangible progress planning a new direction for our company. It was a refreshing ‘outside the box’ experience!” — Marketing executive, non-profit organization

“Mark has a rare skill of being able to communicate complex topics clearly and simply. His talk to my MBA class for professionals on pricing strategy was the highlight of the term. These bright and demanding students learned more in one evening from Mark than they could have learned from reading a whole text book on the topic. Mark’s intelligence, experience and wit combined to produce a fun and effective learning experience.” — Ed Warnock, award-winning MBA professor, the Atkinson Graduate School of Management, Willamette University

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