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1. SIMMETHOD™
Performance Predictive Index, Competitive
Intelligence Success Metrics Database and
Risk/Opportunity Alerts
From the Bottom of the Soccer
League to Best-In-Class Business
Performance
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2. Business Lessons from the game of Soccer
To my horror and
the delight of
some members of
my family, my
Soccer Club that
was managed as a
Business ended-up
at the bottom of
the League.
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3. Business Lessons from the Game of Soccer
The Decisions that Sent my Team to the Bottom
of the League
Pressured by the
Members, the Club’s
Board conducted a review
of the decisions that led
to the poor performance.
The following is a
summary of the findings:
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4. What Drives Business Value and Real
Competitive Advantage?
Decision Number One:
To improve the cost and
profit per player and to get
a competitive advantage
over other soccer clubs, the
decision was taken to start
playing with 9 rather than
11 players.
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5. Are the Metrics Driving your decisions correct
and linked to your objectives?
Decision Number Two:
The second decision was
to eliminate from the
soccer team any player
that was over 25-years old
because they could not
run as fast as the younger
players.
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6. The Holistic View of Risk and Performance
Decision Number Three:
The Defense and the Forwards
were allowed to develop their
own unsynchronized metrics that
were used to justify their
performance and bonus. Although
Defense and Forwards
independently reported an
excellent set of figures, most
games were lost.
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7. The more inward looking your metrics the
greater your risk
Decision Number Four:
Players’ pay and Coach’s
pay were based on
arbitrary inward-looking
targets and not linked and
compared to the League’s
Best-In-Class.
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8. The more inward looking your metrics the
greater your risk
Decision Number Five:
Inward-looking metrics
confused a small amount of
progress for real competitive
advantage and did not
detect until it was too late
that the other clubs in the
league were adopting new
strategies and game-
changing models imported
from other sports.
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9. The more inward looking your metrics the
greater your risk
Decision Number Six
The lack of sport-agnostic
algorithms, indices and alerts did
not enable the Soccer club to
correlate strategies and metrics
from other sports in order to
identify and adopt their Best-In-
Class practices until it was too
late.
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10. Why Sport Teams Fail to Perform? Is it Internal
or External Factors Beyond Coach’s Control?
Decision Number Seven:
External factors such as
excessive wind, rain and the
state of the field were
accepted as valid reasons for
the poor performance. This
in turn led to a lack of
corrective action until it was
too late.
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11. Converting Data and Information into Best-In-Class
Performance
Decision Number Eight:
To address some of the external
conditions that caused the poor
performance, the Club installed
sensors to measure and calculate the
impact of the wind on the soccer ball.
This information was transmitted in
real time during the game to each
player’s phone in order to increase
their productivity and enable them to
take better real time decisions.
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12. Strategy/Execution Performance Predictive Indices,
Competitive Intelligence Database and Alerts
Please write to me with any
suggestion that will send my
soccer team back to the top of
the league at:
jtabacman@gmail.com or tweet
me at SIMMETHOD.
In return, I will send you back my
list of suggestions to keep your
company at top of the Business
League Table.
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13. Strategy/Execution Performance Predictive Indices,
Competitive Intelligence Database and Alerts
SIMMETHOD™ is a “Business League Table”
constantly searching for the top teams
in each industry and value chains in
order to find their Best-In-Class
strategy, execution, Business models,
HR practices, Social Media ROI,
metrics and processes.
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14. Strategy/Execution Performance Predictive Indices,
Competitive Intelligence Database and Alerts
SIMMETHOD™ is a relative scale
that measures business risk and
performance and rates your
management ability to strategize
and execute against your peers, your value
chain and your current and future competitors
and their value chains.
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15. Jorge Oscar Tabacman
jtabacman@gmail.com
Twitter ID: SIMMETHOD
www.simmethod.com
The power of the SIMMETHOD™ performance predictive
algorithm, indices, competitive intelligence success metrics
database and leading indicators lie in their ability to:
• Provide in simple terms a window into a company business
model and management effectiveness and
• Predict future trends, risk, performance and competitive
advantage within an extended value chain.
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