SIM PowerPoint Presentation Slide Deck Contents

For this Board Presentation, you will be create a presentation performance in the BSG SIM to present to the Board of Directors. Description of Market and Product Lines Sold by Region (23 slides) Planned Strategies by Region and Product Line (23 slides) Results by Product Line and Region (45 slides)

• The Performance Highlights report (accessible through your Decisions / Reports Program menu), includes a charting feature at the bottom of the report page.

  If you wish to create additional performance graphs you may do so, but the above six performance measures tell an adequate story about your company's historical performance.

• A slide describing your strategic vision for the company.

• A slide that shows what performance targets for EPS, ROE, credit rating, and image rating you and your co-managers would set for each of the next two years (assuming the simulation were to continue). You may also want to indicate a stock price target as well.

• A slide that sets forth your company's competitive strategy for the internet market in some detail and how that strategy has evolved over the years you have managed the company. You may need to have more than one slide here if your company's strategy for the internet market varies markedly from geographic region to geographic region.

• A slide that sets forth your company's competitive strategy for the wholesale market in some detail and how that strategy has evolved over the years. Again, more than one slide may be needed if your company's strategy for the wholesale market varies markedly from one geographic region to another, such that your company is pursuing a meaningfully different competitive strategy in some regions versus others.

• A slide that sets forth your company's competitive strategy for the private-label market in some detail and how that strategy has evolved over the years you have managed the company.

• A slide describing your company's production strategy (as concerns plant capacity and location, use of overtime, and work force compensation/training strategy).

• A slide describing your company's finance strategy (as concerns dividends, use of debt versus equity, stock issues/repurchases, actions to achieve/maintain a strong credit rating, etc.) You should clearly describe your company's dividend policy during the period you have managed the company. Here, you should also set forth what sort of dividend increases, if any, you would likely consider paying out in the next two upcoming years (given the EPS targets you have established).

• A slide showing (1) those companies you consider to be your strongest/closest competitors in the internet market as of the last year or two of the simulation, (2) those companies that are your strongest/closest competitors in the wholesale market, and (3) those companies that are your strongest/closest competitors in the private-label market.

• One or more slides detailing the actions you would take to out-compete these close rivals in the next two years (assuming the simulation continues for several more years). Since the actions may differ between internet, wholesale, and private-label, you may well need more than one slide here.