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Competition Blog posts insightful comments on the latest international news that render us taken-aback in the domain of the competition facet of life. Competition-Blog: Business-Competition News Warcraft skills pay off in business competition: December 12, 2007 by Keith Gerein
EDMONTON - To develop a head for business, Ryan Poon practised the art of war. The student at Concordia University College in Edmonton recently scored high marks in an international business competition, a feat he credits in part to his love of playing strategic computer games such as Warcraft. While the game's trolls, orcs and wizards know nothing about running a company, Poon says his experience using them in the virtual world helped him develop real-world skills in planning and strategy. "With both the business game and Warcraft, the thought process you have to use is kind of similar," said Poon, 21. "It helps me to see things in a certain way. I can think ahead as to how things will develop." The business competition, offered for the first time at Concordia this semester, requires student teams to run a fictional footwear corporation over a 10-week period. Each week in class, participants are called upon to make a number of detailed decisions in areas such as sales forecasting, production and shipping. "Everyone starts at the same level, and each week the students go to these online decision screens where they have to plug in numbers," said Don Ausman, professor of the fourth-year business course that offers the game as part of its curriculum. "The simulation then evaluates everything and ranks the competitors in the virtual world." For example, students might have to choose locations in Asia, Europe, North America and South America to build their production plants, then decide what type of footwear will be produced at each. There is even a marketing section in which players can bid for the endorsement services of several fake celebrities. Against more than 2,000 teams from around the world, Poon and teammate Asneil Charan finished 41st overall and wound up in the top 20 in the key categories of share price and earnings per share. For tiny Concordia, which has just 1,700 students, scoring so well against teams from major North American and European universities is a substantial accomplishment, Poon's professor said. Poon is now involved in a new business game competing against the top 150 teams from the first simulation. "It's quite challenging," said Poon, who is considering a career as a financial strategist. "Right now, I'm just trying to get myself into a good position." Competition Blog Comment:
Competition blog is going worried regarding the state of affairs that govern our business on the footings of war! This is what our business on earth is and this is what business competition leads us to. A war mentality! And it is not only business that has been inflicted by this mentality of ours, even the way we love has gone corrupted by it. That's why we say - everything is fair in love and war. Our education, our relations, our friendships, our sports, our entertainment, our career, our sex, our marriage, our parenting, our health, our culture, our religion, our society, our politics, and our management - all have fallen victim to this war mentality of ours. We have made this world a battleground of our war-whims. And we have turned our lives into graveyards with dead men walking onto them. In fact we live in a state of perennial war with our own self all through our life since birth till death. We are not living our life; we are living a hell. Shall we wake up and do something to change the world, and make it a place worth living for the civilized creatures that we claim to be? Competition blog gives you a call to end competition in life and on earth! Are you listening?
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