Business Essentials 2004

I attended the IEE course Business Essentials for Engineers in 2003, and I decided to go back in 2004, as a member of the organising committee and as a syndicate leader for the infamous "Business Game".
The business game splits the attendees into groups, and gets them to run a simulated company over the duration of the course. After each exercise the scores, or share prices, are posted by the judges. It sounds like any other role playing or team exercise, but there is something about the way it is run that gets everyone really fired up. By the final presentations, people really believe they are running a company and the competition between teams is intense...

	Team Purple make their final presentation to the board (the judges)
	Strategy, financial planning and b*llsh*t... it's all there!
	Team Blue give an excellent final presentation in spite of some earlier issues.
	Team Green get their final thoughts off their chest.
	Teams are under pressure from a constant barrage of questions from the judges.
	Team Blue
	Team Green
	Team Red
	and finally Team Purple, who won the business game in spite of getting stuck with me as a syndicate leader!
	The conference attendees pose as one big happy family.
	Still standing there, pretending that they wouldn't rather be inside eating lunch.
	Michael and Isobel run into the front for their share of the glory.