Participant Feedback
“My key insight from the simulation was the balancing of all aspects of a business
vs solely focusing on sales and the supply chain. It was likely the best biz simulation
I have been through personally”
VP Sales and Marketing, Intel Corporation
“Our original strategy of quality and innovation wasn’t the best for a more commodity
oriented market. We needed to focus on cash flow much more!”
General Manager, Intel
Corporation
“Teamwork is critical and setting a plan is key. You can’t make assumptions and must gather intelligence.” Intel Senior Manager, Office of the CEO, Intel Corporation
“Intense, amazing how teams formed and how focused people were.”
“Excellent program. How do we follow up on skill set expansion now in our day job – i.e., individual project specification changes – after training.”
“This was an excellent experience. The dynamic nature of the simulation and the human interaction aspect made it have a real-world crazy feel to it that forced fast learning and understanding.”
“Wouldn’t change a thing.”
“Just based on sustained heart rate alone it was great! I ended up with a much more visceral feel for the relationships between different metrics in a business and the importance of leadership, strategy and decisiveness.”
“Far more fun than I expected. Great way to build camaraderie. Several “back to basics” moments for me that I will apply to my work. I am surprised by that in a good way.”
“Rated a 6 on a scale of 1 to 5. Extremely intense and challenging, interactive, bonding, revealing people’s strength, teamwork, leadership. I will miss the intensity when I return home.”
“Very dynamic – seemed to reflect reality.”
“I enjoyed it – would have liked to have had a 360 with simulation team.”
“Outstanding.”
“Excellent!!”
“Teamwork and financial trading were great.”
“Role play was fantastic.”
“Outstanding, challenging, thought provoking and a great test as well as many lessons learned.”
“Improving the communication between my team and customers has helped avoid
misunderstandings. In every situation I face, I now try to get more detailed
information to help me solve problems faster and more efficiently.”
Program Manager
“We’ve implemented weekly P&L reviews for the entire team so all managers
(Test, Process, Product, Manufacturing, Industrial) understand, prioritize
and document the actions they need to take to meet or improve our targets.”
Engineering Manager
“I now focus more on projects that impact the bottom line, set a strategy from
the beginning and ask what I don’t know. As a result, we’re improving on-time
delivery and productivity and identifying new ways to improve operations.”
IT Manager
“Focusing on ‘Thoughtful Fast Disciplined Execution’ I am accomplishing more with
better results. Increased collaboration across group facilitated a fast startup,
which delighted our customer. By asking questions, I found and used company assets
that saved more than $40K on a project with more savings are to come.”
Director, Business Solutions
“I have started using a questioning attitude in everything I approach to find new
ways to drive cost out of the business and improve service. The training opened
my eyes to the value of team expertise and of understanding how functions work
together so we can drive results cohesively.”
Business Development Manager
“My experience was incredible and inspirational. I have used the inspiration and
the ideas from the business simulation to listen to cross functional teams and
connect the pieces to develop a vision. Once the vision is in place the rest is
as simple as as empowering and provide the resources to make reality and results
greater than the vision.”
Program Manager
This is a good exercise to stress teamwork, the importance of assigning roles and
then driving accountability and developing trust. It takes all functions of the
organization to be successful and requires a collaboration to make it work. However,
collaboration without leadership and understanding the role of the decision maker
can lead to a floundering team. It was also a good exercise to practice your
development goals in a "semi-real" environment. The member exchange worked well
to share ideas, lessons learned and best practices.
GE Manager
Great session, learned a lot about the importance of the different functions in
an organization, also great team experience where we really worked as a team together
respecting each other roles in the team but also being open to support other roles
when needed.
GE Manager
Role play from team as well as from TriCorp was great. The learnings and takeaways
from this made it well worth the two days! Best module thus far.
GE Manager
Our team took roles we were not our normal roles . . . I took on a finance role and
learned a tremendous amount. In particular, I learned how to identify variable and
base cost as well as how they were impacted based on our decisions and budget. I also
learned how important the marketing function is it defining a market and price.
GE Manager
Engagement, simple rules, maintaining the excitement thru out the session, great role
play, encouraging creative deals - a great overall experience. Thanks to the Tri
Corporation team.
GE Manager
Done many Simulations... nothing like this one - Interaction with the various
characters brings reality to life - Loves the results analysis... shows you how
different managers are in the real world!
GE Manager
Real life module...GREAT!...would have loved to do it for a few more quarters...
balancing all 3 aspects, engineering, operations and marketing/sales is very
difficult. Was very realistic.
GE Manager
Fantastic exercise. Intense, fun, exhaustive, and like the Communications session,
opened my eyes to my areas of development on both technical and leadership fronts.
GE Manager
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