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Crisis Management: The Ultimate Test of a Leader | In the CEO.

In the CEO Afterlife

by John • September 12, 2011 • Human Resources , Leadership , Strategy • 4 Comments. September 13, 2011 at 3:27 am. Advance planning is very important, however, as you know, it’s impossible to know every crisis that may come your way. September 13, 2011 at 10:30 pm. December 2011.

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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. This final chapter puts it all together.

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

Harvard Business Review

It reached a peak on June 12 and then proceeded to lose over 40% of its value by the end of August despite efforts by the Chinese government to prop up the market. This performance, combined with policies of the Chinese government, led investors to believe that future growth would be ever higher, creating the stock-market bubble.

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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. Old efficiency thinking based on engineering and rational market models needs to be replaced by a creative intelligence based on imagining, building and managing new futures.

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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.