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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. They look at 9 Building Blocks that form the business canvas.

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The G-20 is 2011's Biggest Political Risk

Harvard Business Review

It is the first item on the Eurasia Group's Top Risks for 2011. For example, when it comes to preparation for a possible showdown involving North Korea, there has been no discussion or scenario planning between American and Chinese top brass — not a recipe for good crisis management.

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Living in a Radical State of Uncertainty

Harvard Business Review

For a number of reasons, the size, complexity scale and symmetry of risk are vastly different in 2011 than 1991. For example, in Japan, the utility company believed its nuclear problem was water — not enough water to cool the reactors and ponds. In a first-of-its-kind world, modelling past events to predict the future won't work.

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

Harvard Business Review

For example , U.S. This is exactly what happened during 2010 and 2011 as the global economy was bouncing back.) Demand forecasting may become more challenging as demand patterns change, and companies may be advised to look into forecasting methods based on scenario planning rather than historical patterns.

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A Better Approach to Infrastructure Planning

Harvard Business Review

The product of an MIT CTL research initiative called Future Freight Flows, it is a method of convening conversations and achieving alignment, based on the practice of scenario planning. This makes scenario planning an effective approach for long-range freight transportation planning.

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Setting Strategy in Egypt's (and Other) Shifting Sands: A Four-Part Approach

Harvard Business Review

Developments in the Middle East — first the removal of long-time Tunisian President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali in January 2011 and now Hosni Mubarak's stepping down in Egypt — suggest that authoritarian regimes in the region are not immune to "people power." In terms of scenario planning , firms would think about alternative paths.