This a idea I had
CORPORATION-Division
Where you can assign assets of the corporation into its own division allowing the Divisions to have there own brand strategies within the corporation. As well you can Give the Division a Name and that's what the brand and logo will be for that Divisions products and assets. You can also specify the Product range you want that division to specialize in with a DOO. Division can not borrow money the DOO must ask you for money Required unless funds are allocated to the division yearly in the new budget unit in the headquarters
How to Develop
Create a new building Called Division like the headquarters
Units the Division would need
Division Operating Officer
The Roll of the DOO is to make sure the Division is taken care of just like the CEO but you do not need one to run a division. Having a DOO will allow you to transform a Division into Subsidiaries of your corporation or divisions can be put up for sale in the division office and any assets under that division will be sold with the division. The DOO will have a option where you can choose the product range or ranges you want the division to specialize in.
Division Marketing Officer
The DMO Allows you to choose the brand strategies of the division and have a separate one to the corporation.
Division Tech Officer
The DTO works the same as the CTO but will allow the Division to focus on one range of products. like Drugs, Cosmetic and Bath Supplies or many its up to you. But the Tech Discovered by a Division is part of that Division and stays with the Division until you Dismantle the Division Fully or fire that Divisions tech officer and get rid of the unit out of the divisions head office.
If a Division is Sold all Tech will be sold with it. If A Division is using the Corporations Tech and you sell the Division Without a DTO in place all product Tech will Stay with corporation and the division will be sold without any of your Corporations Tech
Finance Department
This unit will decide how much of profits are transferred to the Corporation just like a dividend to a share holder or you can do a one off payment to the corporation. If you don't have a DOO you don't need a finance department. all division profits will work like any other firm in corporation.
Property Unit
This unit is where you set what assets you want the division to have or allow the division to build
Subsidiaries
Subsidiaries can be merged into a Corporation as a Division allowing the Current CEO to remain in charge of running it but will be Demoted to a DOO you can then decide what assets they can build and what they cant through the property unit. the benefits of merging Subsidiaries into corporation as a division is you get to keep the name and the brand of all the products. The only thing that cannot be transferred is tech . Firms can be transferred to corporation out of division
Divison
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ceomoses
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Re: Divison
I've thought about your idea for divisions. How I view your current proposal is as an expanded version of the range brand strategy. You'd be assigning one or several different classes of products under a different brand name and then add more management members to help manage it. You'd be able to treat that division as a separate entity that you can potentially sell off. I do like your ideas for divisions and I would like to see them implemented, but I also have my own ideas that would take divisions in a completely different direction as well.
My idea would be to expand on how the production quality is done in the game and also better implement private labelling. Right now in the game, your research level is at a certain level, the inputs are a certain quality, then all of the output equals a certain quality. Production experience just increases the amount of output, but it's all the same quality. A more interesting approach, in my opinion, would be that a certain research level and quality of inputs would yield a certain number of output at a desired quality range, but would also yield a certain amount of defective output that falls under lower quality ranges.
If you want to have a high quality brand, you would set a quality threshold to where only output of at least that quality would go under that brand name. If you sold lower quality defective output under that brand, customers will return those defective products and give negative feedback, which would hurt your brand rating. So what to do with these subpar outputs? Sell them at a steep discount to a different division that is geared towards lower quality products, of course! Either a different division of yours or to an AI. This division would be able to purchase these subpar outputs at a low enough cost, be required to private label them under their division name, then sell them at a low enough price so that customers will still buy the defective products and even after the higher rate of returns and low brand ratings, the division can still make a reasonable profit. High-quality brands would thrive better in high wage cities where customers are looking for high quality over low cost. Low-quality brands would thrive better in low wage cities where customers are looking for low cost over high quality. So you could have 2+ different divisions under the same corporation selling the same output from the same factory-- a high-quality brand and a low-quality brand.
More research of a product would improve the ranges in quality you can produce. More production experience not only lets you create more output, but also improves the consistency of quality so less of your output falls under the current quality threshold. The catch with these improvements, however, would be that you would actually want to increase your quality threshold to not only get your high-quality brand rating even higher, but also to keep a steady amount output that fall under the threshold going to these divisions. A division can't remain profitable if they don't have a steady enough input to keep shelves full, after all. They would eventually quit buying from you, and you would be stuck with a bunch of subpar products that you could either sell under your high-grade brand and hurt that high-grade brand rating or throw in the dumpster and make no money from it, taking a larger overall loss. This idea could even become further expanded to multiple divisions: high grade, medium grade, and low grade.
My idea would be to expand on how the production quality is done in the game and also better implement private labelling. Right now in the game, your research level is at a certain level, the inputs are a certain quality, then all of the output equals a certain quality. Production experience just increases the amount of output, but it's all the same quality. A more interesting approach, in my opinion, would be that a certain research level and quality of inputs would yield a certain number of output at a desired quality range, but would also yield a certain amount of defective output that falls under lower quality ranges.
If you want to have a high quality brand, you would set a quality threshold to where only output of at least that quality would go under that brand name. If you sold lower quality defective output under that brand, customers will return those defective products and give negative feedback, which would hurt your brand rating. So what to do with these subpar outputs? Sell them at a steep discount to a different division that is geared towards lower quality products, of course! Either a different division of yours or to an AI. This division would be able to purchase these subpar outputs at a low enough cost, be required to private label them under their division name, then sell them at a low enough price so that customers will still buy the defective products and even after the higher rate of returns and low brand ratings, the division can still make a reasonable profit. High-quality brands would thrive better in high wage cities where customers are looking for high quality over low cost. Low-quality brands would thrive better in low wage cities where customers are looking for low cost over high quality. So you could have 2+ different divisions under the same corporation selling the same output from the same factory-- a high-quality brand and a low-quality brand.
More research of a product would improve the ranges in quality you can produce. More production experience not only lets you create more output, but also improves the consistency of quality so less of your output falls under the current quality threshold. The catch with these improvements, however, would be that you would actually want to increase your quality threshold to not only get your high-quality brand rating even higher, but also to keep a steady amount output that fall under the threshold going to these divisions. A division can't remain profitable if they don't have a steady enough input to keep shelves full, after all. They would eventually quit buying from you, and you would be stuck with a bunch of subpar products that you could either sell under your high-grade brand and hurt that high-grade brand rating or throw in the dumpster and make no money from it, taking a larger overall loss. This idea could even become further expanded to multiple divisions: high grade, medium grade, and low grade.
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au8633
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Re: Divison
ceomoses I do like it but the only reason I did it so simple I looked at the game and how it would fit into the current game with out any headaches for the developers, so it could be implemented sooner rather then a goal to aim for. All your ideas are awesome and I would think they would put it in a whole new build.