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Business Model Generation : Blog | Executive Coaching | CO2 Partners

CO2

The Empathy Map looks like this: In this chapter the authors walk you through processes to arrive a enhanced design like Customer Insights, ideation, providing an introduction to the value of visual thinking, how to use prototyping, story telling, and Scenario Planning. Technology and its role in travel 2.0 John Sullivan FORA.tv

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Get Ready for the New Era of Global Manufacturing

Harvard Business Review

The global manufacturing sector is on the threshold of a dynamic new phase that will provide renewed opportunity for manufacturing firms — and a host of new challenges. We see two forces that will dominate global manufacturing in the coming decade. These forces will shift the dynamics of the global manufacturing sector.

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China’s Slowdown: The First Stage of the Bullwhip Effect

Harvard Business Review

For the last two months, global supply chains have been experiencing the first stage of a bullwhip effect triggered by uncertainties about the severity of China’s economic slowdown. Since 2000, the Chinese economy has been growing at an increasing rate — from 6% per year in 2000 to 12% per year in 2010.

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Living in a Radical State of Uncertainty

Harvard Business Review

As a result, the risk-reward ratios that we take for granted, such tight global supply chains, may no longer make sense. The kind of thinking generated by scenario planning, video/war-gaming, and design thinking need to move from the margins of corporations and government organizations to core strategic positions.

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The Olympics as a Story of Risk Management

Harvard Business Review

In the run-up to the London 2012 Olympics, for example, the global financial crisis caused private developers for the Olympic Village project to withdraw, requiring a refinancing package backed by government. Ensuring readiness for Games-time (in Olympic-speak) now involves strategic pre-emption through stress-testing and scenario planning.