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If your think tank is confident to outwit the competitors by making excellent management decisions and leading the company to increase its market shares and profits under an exciting competitive environment, enter the Hong Kong Management Game organized by the Hong Kong Management Association now and win the HK$25,000 cash prize and round-trip airtickets!
The Hong Kong Management Game, launched in 1971 is a computer simulated exercise, allowing executives a risk-free opportunity to try new strategies under a sluggish economic situation. It is not just a game, but has proved to be an exciting and efficient tool in management training.
The Hong Kong Management Game is a knock-out competition mainly played by e-mails except the Hongkong Final which will be held on Saturday, 11 August 2007. Participating teams, each with four members, acted as fictitious companies, have to submit decisions regarding marketing, pricing, production and finance and to compete in the same real-to-life business situations for six accounting periods in the Official Round. Companies may also face simulated up-to-date management problems such as strikes, labour dispute, anti-competition strategy, terrorist attack, materials / labour outsourcing issues, natural disasters, vendor problems and so on. Decisions submitted will be evaluated by the computer and up-dated Management Report will be produced for each company to form the basis for the next periods decisions. These decisions need to be welded into a strategy if a winning combination is to be achieved.
Teams with the highest accumulated profit within their group at the end of Period Six will be promoted to the Hongkong Final. Attractive prizes to be won are as follows:
| The Hongkong Champion: |
| -A cash prize of HK$25,000 |
| -Four Round-Trip airtickets to India |
-The South China Morning Post Perpetual Trophy
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| First Runner-up: |
-A cash prize of HK$10,000
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| Second Runner-up: |
| -A cash prize of HK$5,000 |
The Hongkong Champion team will represent Hong Kong to compete in the Regional Management Game against winners from other south east Asian countries such as India, Macau, New Zealand, Singapore and so on. The Regional Management Game will be held in India this year.
Briefing Session
To enable companies have a better understanding of the Game, a Briefing Session will be arranged as follows:
| Date: |
Saturday, 2 June 2007 |
| Time: |
9:30 am 11:00 am |
| Venue: |
The Hong Kong Management Association
Johnson Electric Management Development Centre
3/F Management House, 26 Canal Road West
Wanchai HONG KONG
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| Fee: |
Free of charge |
| Deadline for Registration: |
Tuesday, 29 May 2007 |
| Enquiries and Registration: |
2774 8553 (Ms Mei Tang) |
Registration Deadlines for the Game
| Trial Round (Free of charge) |
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Wednesday, 30 May 2007 |
| Official Round (Fee: HK$680 per team) |
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Wednesday, 20 June 2007 |
For further details of the Game, please contact:
The Award this year is proudly sponsored by the following companies:
| Sponsors: |
Official Media Partners: |
| Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd |
South China Morning Post |
| Sun Microsystems of California Limited |
Classified Post |
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Jiu Jik |
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