Tuesday, June 9th, 2009, Governor Hotel in Portland, Oregon. Noon - 4:00
pm, followed by a no-host networking event 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm at Jake's
Grill.

Non-Members - $45.00. Lunch is included.

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Advanced Competitive Strategies (ACS) is proud to facilitate a joint
meeting of the Oregon and Seattle/Puget Sound chapters of SCIP (the
Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals). Open to anyone, this
is an intensive half-day program on June 9 where you participate in a
business war game on the automobile industry. Location: the Governor
Hotel in Portland. A networking event follows the war game.

Program Description
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? And not only what would you do, but how well
would your strategies work?  Here's your chance to find out. What's
more, here's your chance to learn how to stress-test your strategies and
anticipate your competitors with business war gaming. You might even
have some fun while you're at it.

War games and simulations almost always lead to surprises. Why? Not
because they have more decimal points or curvier demand curves. Rather,
because they help us think better. They help us take competitors into
account realistically, not optimistically. They help us focus on cause
and effect. They help us think things through and see the big picture.
They help us learn to think strategically.

And while there are no sure things in life, business war games tilt the
odds in your favor. That's what happened for companies like British
Airways, GlaxoSmithKline, Shell, Weyerhaeuser, and a couple dozen more
around the world, when they worked with ACS.

The session will be facilitated by Mark Chussil (Yale BA, Harvard MBA),
ACS' Founder and CEO, a veteran of 100 business war games and a frequent
writer and speaker about business war-gaming.

Click for registration and more information.