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BUSINESS SAVVY EMPLOYEES HOLD THE KEY TO PROFITS IN 2006 |
How will you influence whether your people make or lose the business money in 2006? HR Directors: will you prove your function's value by taking charge of developing business 'savvy' in your company?
Finance Directors: will you take measures to ensure that non-finance people make decisions on the same basis that you do?
Every day, people throughout your business make decisions which change annual profits, for better or for worse. Sales managers discount for volume without knowing the exact impact on profit. Stock managers order, store and release materials without a true understanding of the impact on cash flow. Consultants give free service to clients without weighing up the actual cost against the goodwill gained.
Businesses can take charge of improving the way people make big and small decisions - resulting in an impact on the bottom line which is easy for everyone to see. Now that's the kind of win-win the MD has been seeking for a long time. |
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WHAT EXACTLY DOES PROFITABILITY DO..? |
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We help people at work make more profitable decisions everyday, by developing their financial and commercial acumen using business simulations. In plain English, this means getting employees away from their desks and enabling them to experiment with a simplified model of their company and future scenarios.
Simulations provide rapid and clear feedback on decisions made, which means employees learn quickly and accurately. Businesses like Nestle, Diageo and Pfizer use ProfitAbility Business Simulations for:
 DEVELOPING FINANCIAL DECISION MAKING SKILLS
The ability to make good decisions, every day, requires sound understanding of business and financial concepts. ProfitAbility uses its specialist board based simulations to convey difficult concepts, through action and 'doing'.
COMMUNICATING NEW CONCEPTS
We help the big cheeses in your business get their ideas across by simulating the future and allowing employees to act it out. Wave goodbye to PowerPoint apathy and confusion...
IMPLEMENTING STRATEGY
Most businesses invest a lot of time developing the 'big idea' for the coming year, producing a forest of stats, strategy maps and 2 by 2 matrixes in the process. But if the employees who are expected to live out the strategy don't understand or welcome it, the thinking and planning investment will be wasted. ProfitAbility enables employees to play out the new strategy, trying it for size and getting to understand how their role contributes to its realisation. Now that's effective implementation.
ROLLING OUT NEW PROCESSES - QUICKLY
When the law changes and it's imperative that employees operate differently or when a new process is required in place of the old comfortable way, telling and selling is just not going to cut the mustard. ProfitAbility delivers simulations that enable employees to live the change in a controlled environment before adopting the process for real.
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The business acumen of your people (or lack of it) makes the difference between success and failure, profit and loss. To help businesses benchmark themselves, the Business Savvy Survey tests individuals and groups, and measures understanding of concepts and terminology. By combining this data with demographic information (is there an issue at a particular grade?) and attitudinal data (do the people who think they are savvy, really know their stuff?) the Business Savvy Survey is a powerful tool measuring business exposure and training needs.
INTERESTED? Request a Business Savvy Survey guide 
When Diageo needed a sure fire way to create value, the Learning and Development function focussed in on financial acumen as the area of top priority. ProfitAbility were called in to tailor a board based simulation programme which would help their managers get to grips with Shareholder Value Creation, Economic Profit and a host of clever concepts which would revitalise the Guinness profit and loss account.
ProfitAbility Business Simulations Ltd
