BUSINESS ACUMEN Training Solutions 

Understand the Systems of Business

Business acumen training is critical to global business today. It is a must-have across all levels of audiences within your company, not a "nice to have” when there is a little extra budget left over in HR to spend at the end of the year. 

We define Business Acumen as the deep and applicable understanding of the system of how a business executes its strategy to achieve its goals and objectives. Business Acumen includes a thorough understanding of the “levers” that create, position, and deliver a value proposition to customers and how you measure success through profitability, cash flow, and shareholder value.

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Our Value to You

Advantexe's Business Acumen training programs help to provide a more systemic view of the business.  Together we can help your learners:

• Take the complexity and mystery out of business
• Build confidence to clearly understand how their role and decision-making impacts your company's bottom line
• Enhance problem-solving techniques and critical thinking skills in relation to making decisions that directly affect revenue generation and cost management 

Why We Are Different

Our flexible design and development approach includes a blend of live, virtual, and self-paced training elements. Using a flipped classroom approach, each journey typically includes:

1. Assessment
2. Pre- and post-work
3. In-person or virtual learning sessions
4. Digital business simulations
5. Action planning sessions
6. Post-learning reinforcement and practical application exercises

Our Business Expertise 

Advantexe maintains a library of over 150 in-depth content modules that provide the foundation for our learning programs and cover a wide range of business topics. These core areas include Strategy, Finance, Operations, Supply Chain, Sales, and Marketing.  This comprehensive library of thought leadership content will allow your employees to focus on: 

• Having the insight, knowledge, and understanding to reduce non-essential spending, not just cut costs.
• Creating accountability where employees fully understand the implications and impact of their decision-making across functions
• Truly understanding your company's financial goals and the "metrics that matter" to manage, lead, and execute your strategy and innovation more effectively
• Looking for ways to  motivate and engage employees to leverage changes in the business and optimize new global and digital opportunities

The Power of Practice

What is unique about our training approach is how we put theory into practice. Working with you, we ensure that your objectives are met by incorporating digital, cloud-based business simulations as a catalyst for performance improvement and sustained change back on the job.  Advantexe's gold medal award-winning simulations are proven and effective tools for driving learning.  They provide a risk-free, engaging atmosphere where innovation and creativity can be applied in real-world contexts to practice and build skills. 

Audiences

From fundamental to advanced learning programs, the content and exercises contained in our learning journeys offer something essential for everyone in your company. Our solutions address the needs of audiences ranging from individual contributors, sales professionals, sales management, functional managers, technical staff, emerging leaders, and even senior executives. 

The Results

Advantexe delivers a game-changing and proven value proposition that has consistently illustrated sustained improvement in skills, behaviors, and business performance. Certified by the ROI Institute®, our studies show measurable impact and ROI in the millions for revenue generation and cost savings.  Here are just a few examples;

• Participants from a leading pharmaceutical company identified $92,000,000 in cost savings or revenue generation
• Participants from a publicly-traded communications company identified $10,231,848 in cost savings or revenue generation
• We experienced a 26% increase in the ability of our team to ‘Read and understand the three basic financial statements: Income Statement, Balance Sheet, and Cash Flow Statement’.

Where do you Start? Contact Advantexe 

Stop your searching and learn more about how Advantexe can help reinvent your company by driving improved business decision-making, knowledge, performance, and results.

Please contact Jim Brodo directly at jim.brodo@advantexe.com, or call us at 610-828-8707 to begin your learning journey. 

Additional Resources and Information 

You can also click on the link below to learn more about each of our core content areas of:

• Financial Acumen
• Business Strategy
• Marketing Management

Additional Resources   Access Advantexe's thought leadership and points of view by visiting our: 

• Resource center - article  white  papers
• Blog - published 2-3 a week on the latest business issues