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Acuity: A business acumen simulation for strategic thinking

How can a business acumen simulation help you?

How can a business acumen simulation help you?

Acuity is a business acumen simulation that can supercharge your leadership development. This simulation helps organisations that seek to:

  • Improve their strategic thinking
  • Gain better financial acumen (such as learning to analyse a P&L sheet, or leading and lagging indicators)
  • Make innovation a central feature of their business
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How Acuity can help your business

In Acuity, participants assume the role of the senior leadership team of a global company in a challenging B2B environment. Acuity improves strategic thinking, financial acumen, and innovative problem solving.

Strategic thinking:

  • Product evaluation, using tooling such as a growth share matrix
  • Analysing previous strategic decisions and building on them
  • Balancing sales forecasting with production planning

Financial acumen:

  • Providing a realistic P&L for participants to use
  • Leading and lagging indicators
  • Key financial KPIs such as gross and net margin, contribution, and fixed and variable costs

Innovation:

  • Balancing investment budgets for operations, organisational development, and product development
  • Evaluating potential new products, when/where to launch them
  • Investing in efficiency improvements across manufacturing and sales

At a glance

  • Duration: Acuity is played over 6-10 hours
  • Family: Acuity is in our business acumen family of simulations, alongside Acumen and Compete
  • Scenario: Participants are running a global B2B organisation, running the business for four years over four rounds. Managing a portfolio of new and existing products in five geographic regions, teams will be challenged to make strategic decisions in operations and sales, profit and loss, forecasting and organisational health

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