Team Formation

& Importance
of Decision-
Making
Frameworks

CH 2
  Team Formation in Simulations

Team  Roles and Responsibilities Overview

Formation & CEO: Chief Executive Officer

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 CFO: Chief Financial Officer

Importance  CMO: Chief Marketing Officer
of Decision-  COO: Chief Operating Officer

Making  CTO: Chief Technology Officer

Frameworks HR Manager Role in Simulations



 Collaboration Across Roles

 Leadership and Accountability in Teams
Introduction to Enterprise Simulations
Team Structure:
Enterprise simulations
mimic real companies
through structured teams
reflecting diverse corporate
roles and hierarchy.

Role Alignment:
Participants assume
executive positions, each
with defined responsibilities
ensuring realistic decision-
making and collaboration.

Real-World Dynamics:
Simulations replicate
corporate environments,
enabling participants to
experience complex
interdependencies and
operational challenges.
Team Formation in Simulations

Team Composition: Ideal Role Assignments: Each Diversity Importance:

teams typically consist of 5-7 member takes specific roles Diverse skill sets foster
members to balance diverse mirroring corporate effective collaboration,
perspectives and manageable executives, enhancing realism ensuring comprehensive
collaboration. in decision-making processes. problem-solving and
innovation within teams.
 Roles and  Mirrored Role Structure: Roles
Responsibilities in enterprise simulations reflect
corporate hierarchy, from CEO to
Overview
HR Manager, enhancing realism.
 Unique Responsibilities: Every
role comes with distinct
responsibilities, ensuring clarity in
decision-making across the
simulation.
 Decision-Making Power: Each
position possesses specific
authority for strategic decisions,
mirroring real-world corporate
governance dynamics.
CEO: Chief Executive Officer

STRATEGIC VISION ESSENTIAL

LEADERSHIP: FORMULATION: SKILLS: CRITICAL
THE CEO GUIDES KEY TASKS SKILLS
THE COMPANY'S INCLUDE ENCOMPASS
STRATEGIC ARTICULATING LEADERSHIP,
DIRECTION, THE COMPANY’S EFFECTIVE
SHAPING LONG- MISSION AND COMMUNICATION,
TERM VISION AND LONG-TERM STRATEGIC
ALIGNING OBJECTIVES TO DECISION-
ORGANIZATIONAL GUIDE OVERALL MAKING, AND RISK
GOALS. EFFORTS. ASSESSMENT
CAPABILITIES.
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 Financial Management: The
CFO oversees budgeting,
forecasting, and financial
reporting to ensure fiscal
responsibility within the
company.
 Cash Flow Optimization: This
role involves managing cash
CFO: Chief
flow effectively, securing
liquidity for operations and
Financial Officer
future investments.
 Analytical Expertise: CFOs
require strong analytical skills
for financial analysis and
advising on strategic economic
decisions.
 Marketing Strategy
Development: The CMO
crafts and refines marketing
strategies to ensure alignment
with corporate goals and
market trends.
 Campaign Implementation
Oversight: Responsible for
executing marketing
CMO: Chief
campaigns across various
channels, ensuring effective Marketing
audience engagement and
reach. Officer
 Market Research
Proficiency: Conducts
thorough market research to
analyze consumer behavior,
preferences, and competitive
landscapes influencing
strategy.
COO: Chief Operating Officer

Key Skills Operational

Needed: Essential Focus: The COO
skills for a COO manages daily
encompass project operations,
management, ensuring smooth
process execution of
optimization, and strategies across
strong problem- production and
solving abilities for service delivery.
operational success.

Supply Chain
Management:
Responsibilities include
optimizing supply chain
efficiency, managing
logistics, inventory, and
distribution processes
effectively.

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 CTO: Chief Technology Officer

Technology Investment
R&D
Oversight: The Decisions:
Management:
CTO oversees the Evaluates tech
Prioritizes and
technological investments,
directs research
landscape, balancing current
and development
ensuring needs with future
initiatives to
alignment with innovations,
enhance
organizational pivotal for
competitive
goals through sustainable
advantage and
innovation and organizational
product relevance.
efficiency. growth.
 HR Manager Role in
Simulations
 Workforce Management: The HR
Manager oversees employee management,
ensuring effective recruitment, training
programs, and compliance with regulations.
 Recruitment Strategies: This role
includes managing the hiring process,
creating a talent pool that fits
organizational needs effectively.
 Training Development: Designing
training programs fosters employee
development, enhancing skills, satisfaction,
and overall workplace effectiveness.
Collaboration Across Roles

Cross-Functional
Interdependence: Interdependent
roles require collaboration, enhancing
adaptation and responsiveness to
dynamic market conditions effectively.
Collaborative Decision-Making:
Effective communication across
functions is essential for aligning
decisions that impact operational
success consistently.
Holistic Strategy Implementation:
Integrated teamwork ensures
cohesive strategy execution, where
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Leadership and Accountability in Teams

Accountability Emphasis: CEO Reliance on Team: The Performance Evaluation

Each role in simulations CEO's success hinges on the Metrics: Roles are assessed
requires accountability, with team's expertise and using tailored metrics,
team members responsible for collaboration, leveraging their measuring individual
their specific contributions skills for informed decisions. contributions impacting
and outcomes. overall business effectiveness
and outcomes.
 Learning through Collaboration:
Collaborative decision-making
enhances participant learning by
allowing them to tackle real-world
business challenges effectively.
 Structured Role Clarity: Well- Conclusion:
defined roles empower participants,
fostering accountability and ensuring Effective
effective communication across
diverse teams. Team
 Experiential Knowledge
Acquisition: Engagement in
Dynamics
simulations cultivates practical skills,
critical thinking, and teamwork
essential for future professional
success.
Importance of
Decision- Chap 2 -b

Making
Frameworks
  Importance of Decision-Making
Frameworks
 Common Decision-Making Frameworks

Decision- 


SWOT Analysis
Porter's Five Forces
Making  Decision Trees
 Cost-Benefit Analysis
Framework  The Balanced Scorecard

s 


PDCA Cycle
Benefits of Decision-Making Frameworks
 Fostering Collaboration
 Conclusion on Frameworks in Simulations
 Introduction to Enterprise Simulations

 Immersive Learning Experience:

Enterprise simulations create real-world
settings, allowing participants to engage
directly with complex business
scenarios.
 Risk-Free Decision Making:
Participants make strategic decisions in
a controlled environment, witnessing
outcomes without jeopardizing actual
resources.
 Enhanced Engagement: These
simulations promote active
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collaboration among users.
Importance of Decision-Making Frameworks
Guided Decision Processes: Decision-making
frameworks provide participants with structured
methodologies to analyze and evaluate complex business
situations.

Clarity in Complexity: These frameworks break down

intricate problems into manageable components, facilitating
systematic analysis and informed choices.

Fostering Strategic Thinkers: Utilizing frameworks helps

participants to foresee long-term implications and strategic
alignments of their decisions within simulations.
 SWOT Analysis: This framework
assesses strengths, weaknesses,
opportunities, and threats to guide
strategic decision-making in
simulations.

Common Porter's Five Forces: Analyzes

competitive dynamics within
Decision- industries, helping participants
understand profitability
Making determinants and formulate
strategies.

Frameworks Decision Trees: Visual

representation of choices and
potential outcomes, aiding risk
assessment and clarity in complex
scenarios during simulations.
 SWOT Analysis

 Assessing Internal Factors: SWOT

analysis evaluates strengths and
weaknesses within an organization,
shaping strategic choices effectively.
 Evaluating External Influences: It
identifies opportunities and threats in
the market environment, enabling
proactive decision-making during
simulations.
 Product Launch Example: Conducting
a SWOT analysis prior to a launch aids
teams in positioning their product
against competitors.
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 Understanding Industry Forces: Porter's
Five Forces helps evaluate competitive
dynamics affecting profitability and strategic
planning in business contexts.

Porter's Five Analyzing Competitive Landscape: By

assessing supplier power, buyer power, threats
of new entrants, substitutes, and competition,
Forces insights are generated.

M&A Application Example: In mergers,

teams utilize the model to predict market
reactions and evaluate strategic positioning
post-acquisition.
Decision Trees

Graphical Representation: Evaluating Risks and Investment Decision

Decision trees visualize Rewards: They assist in Example: A company
potential outcomes based on assessing risks associated employs a decision tree for
choices, aiding comprehension with investment decisions, technology investments,
of complex investment clarifying potential gains and mapping branches to varied
scenarios. losses involved. market conditions expected.
 Cost-Benefit Analysis

 Cost-Benefit Analysis Overview: This

framework evaluates financial
implications, allowing teams to identify
the most profitable decision options.
 Advertising Campaign Evaluation: A
team assesses projected revenues
against costs to ensure a positive return
on investment before launching.
 Enhanced Decision-Making
Precision: Applying this analysis
cultivates informed choices, balancing
expenses and anticipated benefits for
successful outcomes.
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 The Balanced Scorecard

PERFORMANCE BALANCING GOALS: IT MULTI-PERSPECTIVE

MEASUREMENT TOOL: EFFECTIVELY BALANCES APPROACH: BY
THE BALANCED SHORT-TERM FINANCIAL INCORPORATING
SCORECARD MEASURES OBJECTIVES WITH LONG- CUSTOMER, INTERNAL
PERFORMANCE ACROSS TERM STRATEGIC GOALS PROCESS, AND
FINANCIAL AND NON- FOR SUSTAINABLE LEARNING
FINANCIAL ORGANIZATIONAL PERSPECTIVES, IT
PERSPECTIVES, GROWTH. PROVIDES A
ENSURING WELL- COMPREHENSIVE
ROUNDED ASSESSMENT. EVALUATION
FRAMEWORK.
 PDCA Cycle

CONTINUOUS APPLICATION IN EXAMPLE OF

IMPROVEMENT SIMULATIONS: IN PRODUCTION
FRAMEWORK: THE SIMULATIONS, TEAMS EFFICIENCY: A
PDCA CYCLE PROMOTES APPLY PDCA TO SIMULATION TEAM USES
ITERATIVE OPTIMIZE PRODUCTION PDCA TO ENHANCE
ENHANCEMENTS IN EFFICIENCY BY ASSEMBLY LINE
PROCESSES THROUGH REFINING PROCESSES EFFICIENCY, TESTING
PLANNING, DOING, BASED ON FEEDBACK CHANGES AND
CHECKING, AND ACTING LOOPS. MEASURING SET
FOR IMPROVEMENT. IMPROVEMENTS.
 Benefits of Decision-Making Frameworks

 Promoting Structured Thinking:

Frameworks establish systematic
approaches to complex problem-solving,
fostering clarity and focus in decision-
making contexts.
 Enhancing Strategic Decision-
Making: By encouraging foresight into
long-term consequences, frameworks
align decisions with overarching
organizational strategies effectively.
 Improving Risk Management:
Utilizing frameworks assists participants
in evaluating potential risks and
rewards, leading to informed and
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calculated choices.
  Enhanced Strategic Thinking:
Incorporating decision-making
frameworks cultivates strategic
thinking, improving how participants
interpret business dynamics
effectively.
Conclusion on  Improved Decision-Making Skills:
These frameworks empower
Frameworks participants to apply systematic
approaches, refining their decision-
making capabilities during
in Simulations 
simulations.
Deepened Understanding of
Dynamics: Frameworks facilitate
comprehension of complex business
environments, enriching participants'
insights into organizational
challenges.