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> 10.00 Deadline for Assignment 2.<br>
> 10.00 Deadline for Assignment 2.<br>
> 10.00 - 10.30 AGM: results year 01, instruction on year 02.<br>
> 10.00 - 10.30 AGM: results year 01, instruction on year 02.<br>
> 10.30 - 11.30 Round table: “Financial Ratios and Profitability”. <br>
> 10.30 - 11.30 Round table: “Marketing Controlling, Financial Metrics and Profitability”. <br>
> 11.30 - 16.00 Analysis of the results, make new decisions and work on assignment 03 in this year. Continue
> 11.30 - 16.00 Analysis of the results, make new decisions and work on assignment 03 in this year. Continue
developing marketing strategies. Please check this video on how to understand your results: <br>
developing marketing strategies. Please check this video on how to understand your results: <br>

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Your tasks before the gameweek

On the page Game 15DE home you can find all tasks (numbered 1 - 4) as far as possible to be done before the actual game week starts: this should be ready when you start off here.

Your tasks during the game week (Feb 1 - Feb 5)

All the sessions during the game week are very instructive and compulsory (and often fun, of course...).

  • Task 5: Monday 1 February (year 01) - Preparations

Starting day of the game, introduction and finalizing the basic set-up of the hotel.
> 09.00 - 09.30 Registration
> 09.30 - 10.00 Warmers
> 10.00 - 11.00 Official opening and Kick-Off
> 11.30 - 14.00 Lunch break + Karlsruhe City Tour
> 14.00 - 15.00 Round table
> 15.00 - 19.00
1. Check your Teamsheet and fill out in your teamsheet your teamname and experiment with filling in decisions. Work on your Teampage. Be sure to bring down the size of pictures or photo's used to 150kb. Use for instance the tool shrinking pictures: shrinking pictures.
2. Work on your Assignment 1 linked to the prologue, year 00. Check the videos help files on working on your teampage: How to fill out your decisions in your teamsheet and how to fill out your explanations, Help:How to edit your teampage, Help:How to upload a photo, Help:How to make links
3. Prepare the Trade Fair: be sure to have all things ready and set for tomorrow! Work on assignment 1 (a big one!) and look ahead to the rest of the tasks.
> 18.00 Deadline for Teampage on the platform and for your hotel's name in your teamsheet. You can upgrade the teampage later on, but it should be ready now.
> 19.00 - 20.00 Social Networking Event
> 20.00 Night-out

  • Task 6: Tuesday 2 February (year 01) - Day of Creativity

On this first day your team will demonstrate its creativity and thereby present the new hotel in a more promising strategic direction, as well as distinguishing your hotel from your competitors.
> 09.00 - 10.00 Meet with your team, work on decisions and explanations.
> 10.00 Deadline assignment 1.
> 10.00 - 11.00 AGM: results year 00, instructions year 01.
> 11.00 - 12.00 Round table: “Managing Your Hotel: Communication and Media Strategies”.
> 12.00 - 15.00 Lunch break and
1. Preparations for Trade Fair
2. Work on decisions and explanations both in your teamsheet via the secret link for year 01. Read the page secret link teamsheet and fill your decisions out. You will absolutely have to read the page decisions as to get a grip on things.
> 15.00 - 16.30 Trade Fair (Opening by Guest-of-Honour at 15.10). Present your hotel and work on your assignment on the Trade Fair. Participation of all team members mandatory.
> 16.30 - 18.00 Work on Assignment 2 and look ahead to the rest of the tasks.
> Evening: Optional night event to Monkeyz.

  • Task 7: Wednesday 3 February (year 02) - Day of Calculations

Analyze the results, the operational costs made and the key indicators for your hotel. On this day, focus on the calculations a manager often has to make. "Financial language" is key in the hotel sector. Further, linking these to benchmarks is crucial to profitability. After receiving your first results (on year 01) you need to study them, in order to decide on how to react in the next year.
> 09.00 - 10.00 Meet with your team, work on decisions and explanations.
> 10.00 Deadline for Assignment 2.
> 10.00 - 10.30 AGM: results year 01, instruction on year 02.
> 10.30 - 11.30 Round table: “Marketing Controlling, Financial Metrics and Profitability”.
> 11.30 - 16.00 Analysis of the results, make new decisions and work on assignment 03 in this year. Continue developing marketing strategies. Please check this video on how to understand your results:

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> 16.00 Deadline for Decisions and explanations for year 02.
> 19.30 Meet in front of library to begin Bar-Hop.

  • Task 8: Thursday 4 February (year 03) - Day of Managing the Company

The managing of a hotel relies heavily on the ability to communicate with customers as well as your staff, especially when exceptional situations arise. The hotel management will need to deal directly, actively and creatively with the event, as well as to take timely decisions to resolve it.

> 09.00 - 10.00 Meet with your team, work on decisions and explanations.
> 10.00 Deadline for Assignment 3.
> 10.00 - 10.30 AGM: results year 02, instruction on year 03.
> 10.30 - 11.30 Round table.
> 11.30 - 16.00 Resolve management issues; pricing decisions, adjust team page. Work on your assignment 4 and make new decisions!
> 16.00 Deadline for Decisions and explanations for year 03.
> 16.00 Prepare for the 3 minutes of fame, work on the assignment and look ahead to the rest of the tasks. Tomorrow is going to be a really packed day!
> 17.00 - 18.45 Film screening.

  • Task 9: Friday 6 February (year 04) - Day of Promotion

On this day your team will show how to sell its services and make hotel promotions attractive through the use of internet and social media. The competitions finish today. Final results will be determined and the teams with the most profit and that were the most creative will be awarded.
> 08.00 - 09.00 Meet with your team, work on decisions and explanations.
> 09.00 Deadline for Assignment 4.
> 09.00 - 10.00 AGM: results year 03, instruction on year 04.
> 10.00 - 11.00 Team preparation of 3 minutes of fame; pricing decisions, adjust team page etc.; coaches available for feedback and questions.
> 11.00 Deadline for Decisions and explanations for year 04.
> 11.00 - 13.00 3 minutes of fame (all team members are in).
> 16.00 - 17.00 Game Final: Award Ceremony.
> 17.00 - 18.00 After the game final we kindly ask you to evaluate the game by filling out the handed out questionnaire; it helps us to further improve the game! Please also help to clean up the place before leaving the premise.
> 18.00 All participants meet for dinner together (optional)



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