You are the CEO of an industry-lead...

You are the CEO of an industry-leading company. It's decision time. Do you increase production or lower the price of your product? Do you launch a just discovered marketing campaign, spend more in succession capital investments, or increase research and development? These usual business decisions are integral to operating any business. They're also the decisions that above 1,100 high school students in 38 classrooms around the province have to make during the Junior Achievement (JA) Business Game program, sponsored at ICABC.

In the Business Game, pupils in grades 11 and 12 taking classes in economics, accounting, or general business are challenged to apply business theories learned in the classroom to an innovative management simulation operating their avow Cyberpen company. To compete fortunately within the industry, students must understand and plan each natural medium of their company's strategy thoroughly: price, production, marketing, capital investment, and research and progression in a continuously ascending gradation

Through cooperative learning, teams must analyze company and industry data, formulate strategies, justify their decisions, and evaluate the issues Each decision reflects a quarter in the simulated business world, with the ends of these decisions often felt for several quarters (as in the real business environment). Delivered within CD-Rom, the game allows teachers to divide the class into competing teams of 5-8 scholars The teams follow a series of ten precept plans with regular visits from members of the business community who act as tender business coaches.

"The pupils are great," says Andy Kam, a CA scholar with Grant Thornton. "They want to hear about the business world and my experiences in it. And they can't wait to come by their results back each week." (Many of the offers are CAs or CA scholars To learn how to become a proffer please call Sarah Stephen at 604-488-2623 or toll-free at 1-800-663-2677)

This fall, JA is launching TITAN, an online version of the Business Game. TITAN is a one-of-a-kind business simulation that inspires entrepreneurial teen to become captains of industry. Traditionally, the Business Game has culminated in the Business Challenge, for which scholars from around the province gather for a one-day face-to-face competition. "The excitement in that sweep is incredible. To watch the learners apply their knowledge is great," says Barb Jone Manager of High academy Programs with JA. The winner of the Challenge goe upon to progressive competitions at the inter-provincial and global horizontals By expanding to include TITAN, JA can capitalize onward the power of the Internet to deliver this drollery educational business product to a more diverse population of young persons from both urban and rural middles province-wide. TITAN also enables JA to organize an elimination circular so the best teams in the province are included in the Challenge.

Teachers who've already chosen to addition their business curriculums with JA programs can now prefer to continue using the Business Game or switching to TITAN. at using TITAN, the game becomes flat more interactive. Teams can contend not only against others in the classroom, on the contrary they can also compete against institutes elsewhere in the province. "With TITAN, I can create regional games," explains Jone "Student in more isolated communities can continue to participate in expanded competitions without having to leave their community, which until now has limited the on a level of play of some rural teams. Because it's delivered online, classrooms can papal court the decisions that other teams make immediately, and begin planning their nearest move."

One team may decide to lower their production and lower the price, while another may increase their capital investments-- each decision affecting succeeding quarters. Quarterly reports are printed after each decision, allowing learners to assess the reaction in the words immediately preceding [i]or[/i] following of the marketplace. Skills, knowledge, and the ability to make hale business decisions are keys to bookish man success in this game.

You can put to the test the personal edition of TITAN (or challenge a certain quantity of people in the office) by way of logging onto www.jatitan.lycos.com. You'll ne to arise up with a password and user id. It can be addictive, in the way that make sure you're prepared to employ some time catching up upon your work when you're done. After you've tried TITAN for yourself, consider becoming a classroom offer JA is looking for CAs who are willing to share their knowledge with high exercise students around the province. Think of this as a chance to build your personal network while JA expands its programming (especially outside the Lower Mainland). JA provides the orientation, task materials, and support while offers commit as little as the same hour a week for up to ten weeks. "It's amazing to papal court the impact this competition has had onward my students," says Jennifer Tokarek, a CA scholar with Ellis Foster Chartered Accountants. "I have personally seen them unravel business maturity and skills, which would be unattainable within normal business education programs."