Strategic intelligence firm, Fuld & Company, runs 6th Annual National War Game and offers predictions on China’s Smart Grid The Annual Strategy War Game National Championship, “The Battle for China’s Smart Grid,” was organized by Fuld & Company on April 28, 2010 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. IBM, Siemens, GE Energy and Cisco were represented by business students from Northwestern’s Kellogg Graduate School of Management, MIT Sloan School of Management, University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, and Yale School of Management. Most of the students have worked in energy, technology and/or in China. Last year, the War Game was on “The Battle for Healthcare Information”. Fuld’s public War Games have made successful marketplace predictions each year. With 30-plus executives from energy and technology giants GE, IBM, Siemens, Hewlett-Packard and others looking on, four leading business schools yesterday participated in a war game to stress test the global strategies of these firms in competing for China’s $100 billion Smart Grid — only to encounter obstacles that had nothing to do with their companies’ technological prowess and everything to do with how they work with and within China. Through rapid-fire arguments, interrogation by an expert panel of judges, as well as questions from the corporate observers, “The Battle for China’s Smart Grid” War Game revealed many obstacles that many observers admitted that their companies must acknowledge and overcome if they are to win a . . .
