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Business Model Generation : Blog | Executive Coaching | CO2 Partners

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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. This final chapter puts it all together. John Sullivan FORA.tv

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

Harvard Business Review

Since 2000, the Chinese economy has been growing at an increasing rate — from 6% per year in 2000 to 12% per year in 2010. This is exactly what happened during 2010 and 2011 as the global economy was bouncing back.) Strategies to Implement Now. All of this causes significant swings in inventory and orders.

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Living in a Radical State of Uncertainty

Harvard Business Review

Nowhere is this best expressed than in a IBM global CEO survey in 2010, Capitalizing on Complexity , which noted "events, threats and opportunities aren't just coming at us faster or with less predictability; they are converging and influencing each other to create entirely new situations.

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The Olympics as a Story of Risk Management

Harvard Business Review

Ensuring readiness for Games-time (in Olympic-speak) now involves strategic pre-emption through stress-testing and scenario planning. Ahead of Vancouver 2010, IT planning identified around six hundred scenarios for rehearsals in a formal playbook which also documented procedures to follow in the event of an incident.

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Get Ready for the New Era of Global Manufacturing

Harvard Business Review

According to recent McKinsey research (see " The $30 Trillion Decathlon "), consumption by developing economies could rise from $12 trillion annually in 2010 to $30 trillion in 2025, by which time these markets could account for nearly 70% of global demand for manufactured goods. The Dynamics of Global Manufacturing Are Shifting.