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Transform Your Team: 5 Project Management Tactics for Success

Rich Gee Group

The steps include Goal Setting, Problem Identification, Solution Development, Considering Alternatives, and Evaluating Trade-offs. This involves looking at past project data, current resources, and external factors that could impact the project. Diverse perspectives often lead to innovative solutions.

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Create a Strategy That Anticipates and Learns

Harvard Business Review

In health care, these tools are changing the way doctors identify people at risk of developing certain diseases; in fashion, they crunch purchasing data to anticipate trends; sales and marketing experts use them to tailor ad campaigns. This isn’t a retread of scientific management , nor is it an updated take on scenario planning.

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Create a Strategy That Anticipates and Learns

Harvard Business Review

In health care, these tools are changing the way doctors identify people at risk of developing certain diseases; in fashion, they crunch purchasing data to anticipate trends; sales and marketing experts use them to tailor ad campaigns. This isn’t a retread of scientific management , nor is it an updated take on scenario planning.

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Get Ready for the New Era of Global Manufacturing

Harvard Business Review

First we see major shifts in demand: developing economies such as China and India are morphing from the world's source of low-cost manufacturing capacity to the world's best market opportunities. They will not, it must be noted, alter how the role of manufacturing evolves as economies develop.

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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.

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The Potential and Pitfalls of Doing Business in Cuba

Harvard Business Review

Lacking a true price mechanism to drive resource allocation, many state-run enterprises are unprofitable and kept afloat with implicit subsidies. Under such a scenario, multinationals would see expanded opportunity across diverse sectors. Stalled state economy.

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The Big Picture of Business: Putting Budgeting Into Perspective, The Bigger Picture of Strategic Planning

Strategy Driven

Business development. Does the strategic plan provide necessary guidance to the activities you will measure? How diverse is the planning committee? Have you done scenario planning of measures beyond your immediate control, i.e. external factors which profoundly impact your livelihood? Running the business.