Ventum
Simulate the Future of Wind Energy
Ventum is ACF’s competitive business simulation of a modern wind-turbine manufacturer and service provider.
Participants develop a strategy and then execute it over a series of decision rounds, managing sales, production, service, investment, financing and financial performance while competing against other teams.
The renewable-energy setting provides a realistic commercial environment in which participants can understand how companies operate, compete, finance growth and make cross-functional decisions.
Learn the Business. Run the Company. Power the Future.
Ventum is not only for energy specialists. It uses the wind-energy sector as the setting for developing broader understanding across:
- Strategy
- Finance
- Accounting
- Cash Flow
- Working Capital
- Operations
- Production
- Supply Chain
- Procurement
- Pricing
- Tendering
- Marketing
- Investment
- Capacity Planning
- Service
- Risk
- ESG
- Teamwork
Connecting the Dots
The value lies in seeing how these areas interact.
Ventum helps participants understand not just individual business functions, but how decisions in one part of a company create consequences elsewhere.
Finance Growth
Ventum requires teams to understand the financial consequences of their commercial and operational decisions.
Participants work with:
- Revenue
- COGS
- Opex
- EBITDA
- Interest
- Profit
- Cash Flow
- Working Capital
- Inventory
- Receivables
- Debt
- Investment
The financial statements are linked, so operating decisions affect profit, cash, and the balance sheet.
Growth has to be financed and managed, not simply pursued.
ESG with Consequences
ESG is not treated simply as a reporting label.
Choices around energy source, suppliers, production investment and other operating decisions can influence the company’s internal ESG position and subsequent outcomes.
This allows sustainability to become part of commercial and strategic decision-making rather than a separate discussion topic.
Compete Over Time
Ventum is designed to run over multiple decision rounds, allowing strategy and consequences to develop over time.
Participants must therefore think ahead.
Decisions around capacity, inventory, financing, and service commitments can constrain or strengthen the company several periods later.
Learn How the Business Fits Together
Ventum develops practical understanding across a wide range of commercial, financial and operational areas.
That makes it suitable for:
- Recruitment
- Early Careers
- Business Acumen
- Finance Training
- Strategy Programs
- Team Development
- High-Potential Programs
- Executive Education
- Energy-Transition Learning
The level of complexity can be adjusted to the audience. For recruitment or introductory programs, the number of decisions can be reduced. For more experienced participants, the simulation can involve deeper financial, strategic and operational complexity.
More Than an Energy Simulation
Ventum uses renewable energy as the context, but the learning extends much further.
Participants must understand the market, compete for customers, manage operations, finance growth and deal with the consequences of their own strategy.
