suggestions of improvement
Posted: Sat Nov 12, 2011 9:09 pm
Hi.
I have a few suggestions. This first post will be about your staff and how they should be compensated.
The officers of your company
I think the game should put more emphasis on the delegation of responsibility to your COO, CMO and CTO.
For instance, you should be able to tell your CTO which technologies to focus on developing, and how to develop theese. The CTO should also be able to have responsibility of operations at your factories and farms.
Similarly, the CMO could be given operations responsibility for your media firms, and given certain guiding principles on how to run theese. Also, the CMO could be told to create a marketing campaign or something like that.
The Company COO could be given more guiding principles and direct orders in regards to price setting, internal sale and so forth.
Other officers??
What about hiring your own CFO?
What about creating a new department with responsibility of investing in stocks or real estate?
What about a departement dedicated to direct sales?
What about having several officers in one department, maybe with one or more vice presidents?
What about an officer solely responsible for finding new opportunities for the company?
The only thing that a COO is good for in cap2 is price setting, and that´s because it´s so annoyingly timeconsuming to do so yourself. The ability to change the way your company operates without having to fine tune all the buttons will only make it more playable.
Better hiring pool and pay
Implementing theese opportunities would also require an updated version of the hiring pool. The specialities of the different people should perhaps be set up in a different way so that it is easy to distinguish between the traits of different people.
When your COO requires $275 million per year, and you´re making a hundred mill as CEO and chairman, where´s the logic?
The level of compensation should be adjusted. And i would suggest that the salaries your COO wants, should depend more on how much self interest they have in the company´s well being. That is, if they own stock in the company for example.
In real life, executive staff demands some sort of result- based compensation. Stock options and bonuses are strong incentives and a combination of theese and regular fixed salaries are a far better method than to just hand your employees some dollars.
You should be able to give more to your employees if you want, and this should create more satisfied staff, and in turn they would be getting more done. And everybody is happy.
Board of Directors
Why not include this in the game? You can add a new interface, the board room, and here you can get advice from your board members. Maybe large investors in the company will force their way into your board rooms? Maybe some decisions such as large stock purchases must pass through the board? This is easy if you own 100% of the company, but if i´t´s 50%, it´s not that easy.
I have a few suggestions. This first post will be about your staff and how they should be compensated.
The officers of your company
I think the game should put more emphasis on the delegation of responsibility to your COO, CMO and CTO.
For instance, you should be able to tell your CTO which technologies to focus on developing, and how to develop theese. The CTO should also be able to have responsibility of operations at your factories and farms.
Similarly, the CMO could be given operations responsibility for your media firms, and given certain guiding principles on how to run theese. Also, the CMO could be told to create a marketing campaign or something like that.
The Company COO could be given more guiding principles and direct orders in regards to price setting, internal sale and so forth.
Other officers??
What about hiring your own CFO?
What about creating a new department with responsibility of investing in stocks or real estate?
What about a departement dedicated to direct sales?
What about having several officers in one department, maybe with one or more vice presidents?
What about an officer solely responsible for finding new opportunities for the company?
The only thing that a COO is good for in cap2 is price setting, and that´s because it´s so annoyingly timeconsuming to do so yourself. The ability to change the way your company operates without having to fine tune all the buttons will only make it more playable.
Better hiring pool and pay
Implementing theese opportunities would also require an updated version of the hiring pool. The specialities of the different people should perhaps be set up in a different way so that it is easy to distinguish between the traits of different people.
When your COO requires $275 million per year, and you´re making a hundred mill as CEO and chairman, where´s the logic?
The level of compensation should be adjusted. And i would suggest that the salaries your COO wants, should depend more on how much self interest they have in the company´s well being. That is, if they own stock in the company for example.
In real life, executive staff demands some sort of result- based compensation. Stock options and bonuses are strong incentives and a combination of theese and regular fixed salaries are a far better method than to just hand your employees some dollars.
You should be able to give more to your employees if you want, and this should create more satisfied staff, and in turn they would be getting more done. And everybody is happy.
Board of Directors
Why not include this in the game? You can add a new interface, the board room, and here you can get advice from your board members. Maybe large investors in the company will force their way into your board rooms? Maybe some decisions such as large stock purchases must pass through the board? This is easy if you own 100% of the company, but if i´t´s 50%, it´s not that easy.