FINANCE GAMES
BankEx:Banking Simulation Game
Banks are considered to be one of the most complex organizations in the world, mainly due to the amount of risk churned by them. However, with banks increasing their presence in management schools and acquiring preferred employer status, it is of paramount importance for each management graduate to understand their functioning.
The online Banking Simulation game aims to achieve the above objective by bringing together the best minds in country to compete amongst themselves.
The teams will decide on the pricing of loans and deposits and allocating funds to Equity market and debt market. The analysis would encompass issues like- setting levels of loan disbursements, investment in government securities, pegging of various relevant rates of interest, amount of exposure in various stocks of companies and the quantum of deposits that will be accepted from various classes of depositors.
Split Hairs: Country Analysis Competition
With globalization continuing apace, the free mobility of capital across nations has opened a wide range of investment opportunities. However the benefits of International diversification can be accrued only if it is backed by an in -depth analysis. The emerging economies like India, China, Russia, Brazil, and South Africa are reckoned as attractive investment destination.
This event would require teams to undertake an analysis of the financial market for a given set of countries in terms of the opportunities they provide for investments. This has to be supported by analysis of various factors under PESTEL framework which has bearing on the financial market. The team has to zero down on a particular market and devise an investment strategy over a 5 year period.
Cold Fusion: The M&A; Plan
With India entering the dynamic phase of growth several sectors in the county are bound to experience an inflexion point in terms of future strategies. With liberalization, privatization and globalization the Indian companies are exposed to pressures of competition not only internally but also from international companies. Given the context, Indian companies have realized the need for inorganic growth in the form of mergers and acquisitions.
The M&A; Plan would require participants from top B Schools to identify prospective target companies for a foreign bank. Each team would be required to carry out an analysis of the economy and prospective target banks along with rational for acquisition after carrying out due diligence of the acquisition. It would also require to teams explore the various option to finance the acquisition.
MARKETING GAMES
Marque : The Marketing Academy Awards
Marque presents the students of top B School in the country the chance to go behind the scenes, don their marketing hats and be right in the middle of the virtual filmcity called marketplace
Presenting Marqué, the series of marketing events in FMS Management Fiesta. The games would test skills ranging from conceptualizing and designing products, to creating marketing campaigns and crafting innovative selling strategies. Each individual event would carry some weighted scores and the B-school with the maximum cumulative score would be crowned: “The Best Production House” at the end of all the events.
Categories:
Genesis: Award for Best Script
Mayhem: Award for Best Direction
Dramark: Award for Best Actor
Hmmm: Award for Best Story
Brand Aid: Critics Award
Genesis: Award for Best Script
Mayhem: Award for Best Direction
MAYHEM welcomes all the marketing bondss across premiere B-schools to flex their creative muscles & do the ‘unthinkable’…true 007 style! Resource constraints, time constraints, unexplored foreign territory, wily competitors on the lookout for ideas….. there would be unassuming challenges lurking at every corner. So…turn on your Golden eye and zoom into action…. Unleash your marketing charisma, your gizmos of classic creation, your never say never again attitude…’coz you only live twice! May the best bond win in this Marketing casino royale….coz at FMS Management Fiesta, the world is not enough!
Dramark: Award for Best Actor
“THE ZERO MILEAGE BIKE” is the best means of transport and it’s imperative that you wear “MOONGLASSES” at night. . . If you can remain straight faced while saying this, you are the best darned “LIAR” This event urges the audacious marketer in you to dump all the virtues of honesty and modesty that you have hard-learnt in your life and ignites the devil within you. If you can pull all your fancy fabrication and daring deception on the unsuspecting audience, then you shall be crowned the “ Liar – King ”So are you are ready….it’s the time for you to gear up and speak your “ TRUE LIES ”
Hmmm: Award for Best Story
“Jack and Jill went up the hill
to fetch a pail of water
Jack fell down and broke his crown,
and Jill came tumbling after.”
After this, we tell you what happened to Jack and where went the Jill.
“Up got Jack, and home did trot
As fast as he could caper
He went to bed and bound his head
With vinegar and brown paper…”
Anecdotes record that Jack and Jill referred to are said to be King Louis XVI – Jack -who was beheaded (lost his crown) followed by his Queen Marie Antoinette – Jill – (who came tumbling after). The actual beheadings occurred in France during the Reign of Terror in 1793.
If you can narrate stories, be game for encountering the unexpected at this “totally online” event?
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STRATEGY
Final Round : Corporate Strategy Game
Its time for you to put your knowledge acquired at B school to test. Armed with knowledge its now time to put it into action. Not one or two but the entire range of functions in an organization will be under the scanner.
This corporate strategy endeavour promises to be a truly unique and whirlwind experience. A live online business scenario is what you shall be presented with. Run your company in a live market environment, taking decisions, some tough, some easy. Face challenges, take risks, beat the competition. Introduce products, set up infrastructure, take production decisions, advertise, pay salaries and taxes, forecast demand, predict the market, control supply all in a span of half a day of fun filled knowledge enabled excitement.
The game envisages not only seeing the participants meeting immediate short term objectives but also their business acumen in planning for the future and ensuring protection against unseen contingencies or opportunities. This is ultimately what differentiates the market leaders from the rest of the pack.
You shall play to win and in seeking to win you shall imbibe new forms of competitive behavior that are ideal for today’s highly chaotic business conditions. Teams will be required to display an expertise in all areas from finance to logistics to solving production problems on the run.
The stage is set for this corporate battle at Fiesta 2005. The warriors are the best business brains the country has produced. What else could one ask for? Fight and fight to win.
Elimination Round
As a precursor to the corporate strategy game at Fiesta 2005, is an elimination round. A perfect combination of online as well as offline events the elimination round shall be conducted in different stages. The overall performance of teams across stages shall be judged and 15 best teams shall be pitted against each other in the simulated corporate battlefield.
The elimination round shall test the players current awareness, knowledge, especially in the consulting and corporate strategy domain besides their analytical and logical thinking ability. A true battle of wits this promises to be!
HUMAN RESOURCES
Celeb-Ration– Bid to Build
“Leave aside stocks and shares, and invest in real life celebrities to build up your dream team.”
Ever been to an auction where you could bid for live celebrities from different walks and spheres of life. If no, this is the only chance.
Celeb-ration is primarily a team building game. One has to make a team out of celebrities chosen from different genres with the limited financial resources available to them.
An ideal team would have one celebrity from each genre, so that the team can have as many diverse and complementing competencies as possible. The game basically tests one on current awareness, decision making skills, financial management skills, risk taking abilities and of course intuitive thinking.
Lit-Mus– Take the test
“Creative freelancers are invited to try out this addictive online literary challenge.”
Building up to the excitement with our starters, we present a bunch of enthralling games ranging from literary to creative. Lit-mus challenges the literary genius in you. You will have to don your thinking caps to crack the crosswords while word grids will put to test your quick thinking and knowledge. C.R.Y (Creative Presentations and You) is a novel game where in we give you a set of presentations from which you get to pick slides to make a thematic presentation of your own! Also, we invite creative taglines for the pictures posted periodically. With a variety of games and themes on offer, can it get any more exciting than this?! Ready for thinking in all directions and dimensions??
Manager’s Dilemma– Schedule & Prioritize
“A real life manager’s resource and scheduling optimization challenge.”
The role of a manager isn’t that easy. Managing timelines, deadlines , resources efficiently and effectively is an uphill task.
Manager’s Dilemma is a game which gives you a real life case as a manager with a team. Different people in the team have different strengths and skill sets. With the impending and incoming tasks, the manager has to schedule efficiently so that the tasks are accomplished within or before the deadlines; by the best possible people and yet no resource is left idle or overworked. Come, Play and evaluate your decision making, time management and analytical skills.
SYSTEMS
IT Manager Game
As a manager you need to monitor industry trends and administer mission-critical resources for an entire company. At the same time, you have to manage increasingly tighter budgets – finding ways to do more with less – and possess the people skills to oversee staff and run interference with top decision makers.
The IT Manager Game tests your entire skill set – people management, resource allocation, strategic analysis and planning. It also tests your courage under fire – can you stand up to the scrutiny of top management along with that of your peers in the industry? Will the decisions you make result in breathtaking profits or devastating losses? Are you destined for management glory or will you be just one amongst the many?
Quizzotica
Snap responses, rapid reflex action, and loads of grey-cells at work. The systems quiz unfolds bouts of enthusiasm as teams compete to excel the most well known of all games.
SysMotley
The shortest distance between two points is not a very interesting journey. R. Goldberg In the run-up to the ultimate Fiesta event, we get the clock ticking with an assortment of funtelligent contests. Quiz, pictionary, crossword, puzzles – all of these and more to pop for the technology yankies.
INSIGHT
If Business Strategy is what excites you, then we have got the recipe for you. The company under study has set ambitious growth plans and it is looking up to you to show the way.Can you do it? Get all your business intelligence rolling and your thinking nerves ready to give the firm the growth trajectory it has carved for itself.