Write a paper in the form of a Report to the Board of Directors (choice of company). This paper is based on your experience over all the quarters played in the simulation, and as the CEO of q company, you will write objectively, and with candor. The Board of Directors of your company is comprised of top executives, whose expectations are for an excellent report, with substantiated facts, and no "fluff."

Use as many examples as you can to show the logic which underpinned a decisions. Be sure to analyze, discuss and detail to explain both the "Why" and the "How". Data should be used to back up your statements wherever necessary, e.g. market share, fixed capacity, balanced scorecard, sales compensation, financial statements etc.

Make sure there's substantiate in assertions with data.

Discuss the total experience, responding to the following questions and components:

The Report to the Board should include the following components:

1. Review the financial and market performance since the start of the firm
2. Highlight the key features of the firm's strategy and how they evolved over the past six quarters
   • Overall corporate strategy
   • Marketing strategy
   • Sales Channel strategy
   • Human Resource strategy
   • Manufacturing strategy
   • Financial strategy
3. Assess the current situation, including the market, competition and your firm's strengths and weaknesses?
4. Summarize you prepared the firm to compete in the future.
5. What were the top three lessons learned?

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Discuss 3 recommendations you believe are beneficial to the Board of Directors and why.