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under its wing from this year opportunities coming from
on. In the prize awarding cer- different parts of the world.”
emony, MMA Council chair- Council vice-chairman Cath-
Play the game
man Tommy Lau said that the erine Ng also announced that,
competition “has created an in- compared with the previous
T
he simulation program of GMC, known as eDIT 515, is the
creation of a group of economists in the Department of
ternational platform for Macau year, MMA achieved yet an-
Operational research at Strathclyde university in Scotland. Their
people to meet others with other record number of entries, challenge, posed by the Glasgow Chamber of Commerce 36
different cultures, values and 130 from Macau and 101 en-
years ago, was to create an information technology application
management skills” which he tries from Hong Kong, with a
that could test the outcome of strategic management decisions
considers a valuable asset “es- total of 996 participants. “For
by a company against its competitors. In a typical challenge,
pecially at a time when Macau us to organize a competition of
each participating team receives the last five quarter’s history of a
company. after carefully studying the company’s past performance
is becoming an international this calibre takes a lot of cour-
and its operating market, it devises a business strategy. National
city, with numerous business age and determination,” she
heats for the GMC are organised by a local business franchise of
Lisbon-based Sociedade de Modelos de Gestão (SDG) in concert
with one or more media partners worldwide. In Macau, SDG asia
holds the franchise, while the event itself is organised by the
Macau Management association (MMa) and sponsored by CeM,
Macao foundation, HSbC, IPIM, Golden Crown Development
Ltd. Support also comes from the Monetary authority of Macau
(aMCM), the Macau Government Tourist Office (MGTO), and
Macau business and business Intelligence magazines - flagship
financial publications (in english and Chinese) by Deficção
Multimedia Projects: two of the event’s local media partners. for
more information log on at
www.gmc-asia.com.
noted during the ceremony. Final will take place this com-
The Hong Kong champion ing April in Lisbon, Portugal,
team SUPeRFUTURe, will headquarters of global organ-
be joining the MMA delega- iser’s Simuladores de Gestão
tion to represent sister HKSAR (SDG), marking the beginning
in Lisbon this coming April. of the celebrations of the 30th
He Guo Qian, born in Hubei Anniversary of the competi-
Province, told Macau Business tion with a record number of
that he and his friends first 30 competing countries from
joined the competition to prac- all over the world.
tice and improve their english, entering the challenge
but soon understood the added are Angola, Australia, Bela-
value of participating: “learn- rus, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil,
ing how to work with others Czech Republic, Denmark,
and finding out more about Finland, France, Germany,
how a real company operates.” Greece, Hong Kong, Hungary,
In their personal view, all team India, Italy, Latvia, Macau,
members agree that China re- Mexico, China, Poland, Por-
quires more “specialists” to tugal, Romania, Singapore,
help raise the bar of best busi- Slovak Republic, Spain, Tur-
ness practice. key, Ukraine, and the United
The 2008 International Kingdom.
february 2009
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