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Scaling Operations Through Crisis — When the Market Turns

COO simulation set inside Petrolia S.A., an integrated energy group facing a 30% downstream demand contraction.

3 rounds Executive English, Español

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About this simulation

COO simulation set inside Petrolia S.A., an integrated energy group facing a 30% downstream demand contraction.

Across three decision rounds — Day 30 stop-the-bleeding, Day 90 rebuild-under-constraint, Day 180 position-for-the-bounce — the participant balances cash recovery against the Capitalia covenant cushion, long-game capability preservation as defended by audit chair Sofía Bermúdez, and customer continuity for Logística TransAmericana.

Built around the canonical contraction-period playbooks of Tim Cook, Dave Cote, Carol Tomé, the Daimler Kurzarbeit deployment, the Boeing-Spirit supplier discipline, Jeff Wilke and Doug McMillon.

Who it is for

An advanced simulation for participants used to working with the main frameworks and trade-offs of the subject, designed for executive education and experienced professionals.

How a session runs

  1. The instructor creates a session from the Eureka dashboard and invites the participants.
  2. Participants play 3 rounds. In each one they submit their decisions and the simulation calculates the results.
  3. The simulation can be run in English, Español.
  4. The instructor follows each participant's progress and results from the dashboard, and uses the class results for the debrief.

Decisions participants make

The decisions participants make during the simulation:

  • 1. Production-line posture (Brazilian downstream)
  • 2. Contractor releases and hiring freeze
  • 3. Capex pause and reprioritization
  • 4. Working-capital squeeze
  • 5. Customer-facing SLA review
  • Duration assumption (Mariana central case 25/55/20)
  • 1. Centralize vs. preserve regional autonomy
  • 2. ERP and tech-debt repayment
  • 3. Supplier-base rationalization (240 tier-2 vendors)
  • 4. Programa Líderes and bench pipeline

What participants track

What participants follow on screen as the rounds go by:

  • Decision Portfolio
  • Decision log · cabinet record

Subjects covered

Designed for courses in General Management & Integration.

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