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This post is an invitation for you to attend a free webinar about business war-gaming, led by a veteran of hundreds of business war games around the world.

(Translation: Business War Game in Washington, DC.) We all know we’re in an economic crisis. We all know that we still have to make strategy decisions. And we all know it is a time of opportunity as well as a time of danger. It’s a perfect time for business war gaming.

ACS announces two upcoming workshops about business war-gaming and a forthcoming article about a business war game for the automobile industry. We also invite strategists to participate in a free and fascinating pricing-strategy tournament.

Patent for simulation design. Top Pricer Tournament at conference. Public business war game about the automobile industry. Recommended book.

What would you do if you were the GM CEO? Or Alan Mulally of Ford, Akio Toyoda of Toyota, Tom Purves of BMW, Robert Cosmei of Hyundai, or another industry leader? Would your strategies work? Come participate in an automobile-industry business war game, facilitated by ACS.

Harvard Business Publishing’s Denis Sautnier, Educational Technology Director in the Higher Education Group, recently interviewed ACS Founder and CEO Mark Chussil. You can see their wide-ranging conversation at Business Simulations and War Games: An Interview with Advanced Competitive Strategies’ Mark Chussil.

According to Newsweek’s Sharon Begley, “The more feted by the media, the worse a pundit’s accuracy.” So, if we shouldn’t trust pundits who have (merely) achieved fame, how should we decide whom to trust? Fame may not be a prerequisite, but it doesn’t follow that obscurity is.

What we really want is to find a theory (in the sense of a model or system, not in the sense of an idea) that repeatedly, not anecdotally, predicts future events well. That’s how it works in science. I’m not saying it’s easy. I am saying it’s possible and it doesn’t have to be perfect.

A brief survey of the day’s news, and what ACS had to say about it before it happened.

A different approach to marketing crisis preparedness, from the Wall Street Journal. An upcoming two-day workshop about business war-gaming from ACS.