Brain Food
ACS recently introduced a highly interactive one-day program suitable for a wide range of business audiences. “Brain Food: How to Get Out of the Box, Think Strategically, and Amaze Your Friends™” debuted in March 2009 to rave reviews.
Brain Food is not about cheerleading, unsubstantiated magic, miracle-diet strategies, brow-beating, or some mysterious secret that can only now be revealed. It is not about uncovering an obscure factoid or prescribing a one-size-fits-all strategy. It is not about improving the bottom line by 0.0371 percent. It is not a lecture.
Brain Food is about the highest leverage activity in every company: great strategic thinking. It combines competitive dynamics, deep experience, psychological research, world-class simulation technology, and learning-by-doing. It is about improving strategists’ skills, applicable every day and starting right away.
The workshop is highly interactive. It includes case studies, lively exercises, and two simulations, one based on ACS’ ValueWar™, which we use in actual business war games. It uses the best material from ACS’ conference presentations and executive-education programs. And it’s fun!
In this workshop:
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You will see, and experience, how common how-we-think errors unconsciously lead smart, well-intentioned strategists to choose bad strategies.
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You will learn about the competitive-strategy equivalent of financial fundamentals.
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You will combine your expertise with techniques such as business war games to gain surprising new insight into businesses you thought you knew well.
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You will leave this thought-provoking, action-packed workshop energized with powerful new perspectives on the decisions you make.
Please contact ACS for more information about Brain Food.
Management Development
ACS provides off-the-shelf and customized workshops for conferences and corporations, including educational business war games for over 100 people (our record was 600). These programs last as little as an hour and as much as two days.
Recent workshops and their locations:
- A Perfect Time for Business War-Gaming (focused on the automobile industry; Washington, DC, half-day workshop). See Honey, We Shrunk the Industry Again for a write-up of this event.
- Business War Gaming: How to Stress-Test Your Options Before You Commit (Kuala Lumpur, two-day workshop)
- Surprise! How Business War Games Shock Strategists into Beating the Competition (focused on the automobile industry; Portland, Oregon, half-day workshop). See Honey, We Shrunk the Industry for a write-up of this event.
- Too Bad You’re Human: Why Smart Pricers Start Price Wars, and Other Unfortunate Inclinations (Chicago, half-day workshop)
- Pricing Excellence: How to Know It When You See It (And How to Get It) (Chicago, conference presentation)
- Too Bad You’re Human, And How To Create Great Strategies Anyway (Portland, three-hour program)
- Competitive Intelligence and Business War-Gaming (Kuala Lumpur, two-day workshop)
- Too Bad You’re Human: Why Smart Strategists Choose Bad Strategies (Istanbul, keynote presentation)
- Does Your Strategy Hurt When I Do This? Curing Strategies with Business War Games (Istanbul, half-day workshop)
- Business War Gaming: Battling Rivals with Business and Competitive Intelligence (Dubai, two-day workshop)
- I Thought You Started It! Price Wars, Business War Games, and Strategy (Miami, half-day workshop)