Although the big news for 2020 has obviously turned out to be the effects of the COVID19 coronavirus pandemic outbreak, many business students still have to struggle with the difficulty of playing the Business Strategy Game to get a good grade to graduate.
The BSG Game went through a major revision in the beginning of 2019. The screens and reports were changed. The conditions of the game environment were altered, include the location and amounts of import tariffs charged in each region. Bidding for private label production contracts has new restrictions on the amount and quantities that may be bid in order to give some teams a better chance of winning a bid, while other teams might have a worse chance to win the bids.
As a result, I highly recommend that you not use any BSG advice or videos that were created before 2019. You also should take great care to be sure that recent videos are based on the current version of the game, which will take quite a bit of effort for you to do. You can’t determine this unless you study the current version to know the game details.
If you follow the old advice, you’re chances of doing well in the game are basically ZERO. You will fail the game with a low score if you follow old or bad information. Do not assume that all or most of the advice that you find is good. In fact, you should carefully compare and contrast the information you see to assess the quality of the info as best you can.
If you see a video on youtube claiming to help with the BSG Game, should you trust it? In general, NO. Does the video maker have a full set of videos covering the whole game, from start to finish, including the results of the last year of the game? How do you really know whether the video maker did well in the game himself or herself if the details are results of the last year of the game aren’t provided? You don’t. You can’t determine the success of a sports team for a particular year without knowing the scores and final results of the season. Then why would you accept the advice of someone if they might be hiding the fact that they couldn’t even win the game that they played? There has to be enough detail provided to determine the quality of the information being offered to you.
In my case, I’ve won the game many times personally and hundreds of teams that I’ve tutored have won their games. Some teams have gone further to become BSG Grand Champions by winning the Global Best Strategy Invitational Tournament.
However, I don’t provide the details of these wins to protect the privacy of the students. So how can you trust the info I provide? I don’t want you to trust it. What I do is to teach how the game works on a step-by-step basis using skype with screen sharing by using the game itself. When you learn how the game works, THE GAME WILL TELL YOU WHETHER WHAT YOU’RE DOING IS BETTER OR WORSE WHEN YOU TRY DIFFERENT OPTIONS. The trick is to learn how the game does this and how to properly interpret the results, because sometime poor decisions can seem better on the surface in the short-term if you aren’t doing an in-depth analysis and evaluation of the long-term impacts that the game doesn’t easily provide for you. It usually does provide the info to make the best decisions, but that takes a lot of digging and analysis to discover.
Besides letting the game tell you whether my advice is good or not, I also spend a lot of time for each year of the game to explain in advance what the goals and objectives are so that you can determine the success and failure from the results of each year of the game that’s left. You will quickly see that my advice and prediction are extremely accurate. You don’t need to trust me when you see the reliability of the results. I’m also explaining all the reasons for why the game works the way that it does, which you can also verify for yourself as I’m showing you how it works.