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Business War Games and Strategy Simulation
Since 1992 ACS has worked with dozens of the world's largest companies to design, develop, and conduct some 100 business war games and numerous seminars about competitive strategy. Our strategy simulation technology has helped them make much better strategy decisions.
Our business war gaming and strategy simulation experience includes working with major players in industries including pharmaceuticals, telecommunications, airlines, computers, health and beauty aids, gasoline, and Internet services, on six continents. (See Case Studies.) Our track record includes helping thousands of strategists gain critical insights that changed the course of their businesses.
Business war games are ACS's business. As pioneers in the field, we often publish and address conferences. Our strategy experience, facilitation skills, and simulation capabilities allow us to offer extraordinary business war games.
ACS uses innovative techniques that produce uncommon insights. What makes us unique is:- We've developed and gained experience with techniques that help managers get new perspectives. With a better view of the market, you have better odds of outthinking your competitors.
- We see ourselves as complementary partners with our clients. We can help you put your knowledge to best use.
- We are "strategy agnostic." We don't push a favorite strategy that may not fit your business.
- We have broad expertise that includes disparate-yet-related fields such as decision-making, business operations and strategy, quantitative modeling using cause-and-effect relationships, event set-up and facilitation, and so on.
- We think like strategists, not accountants or forecasters.
- In our quantitative business war games we use our award-winning ValueWar® strategy simulator, or we create a custom strategy simulation for the specific situation you face.
- We have strong business backgrounds, so we understand the business, strategy, and marketing implications of what goes on during a war game. Our extensive war-gaming experience means we are attuned to nuances, comments, behaviors, and even what remains unsaid.
Strategists in ACS business war games often achieve major insights into their businesses, competitors, and markets, insights that help them make much better strategy decisions. They discover that Strategy A has a fatal flaw. They discover that Strategy B exploits a previously unsuspected weakness in a key competitor. They discover that competitors have distressingly effective resources, options, or ideas. Sometimes they even discover that none of their strategies is aggressive enough, and to achieve their goals they must generate new ideas.
Those insights come more readily and are made especially memorable by the war-game experience. Strategists experience their results with a unique emotional intensity that makes lessons more real. Business war games make insights more apparent, and they help strategists make and implement decisions with greater confidence and commitment.
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