Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2014

Traditionally, the discipline of strategy has emphasized a deep understanding of market economics and potential disruptors, the evolution of demand and value expectations, the competencies of the organization, and the role of talent and performance management. We can connect insights and execution at a pace never before possible.

Strategy 8

Strategy Scenario Planning Scientific Management Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2012

A terrorist incident, a breakdown of the London rail system, power blackouts, volcanic ash clouds , flooding, an outbreak of infectious disease—the London organizing committee (LOCOG) and the International Olympic Committee (IOC) spent years thinking about every scenario they could imagine.

Risk Management 15

Risk Management Management Committee Insurance 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2011

How to successfully deal with a new radical state of uncertainty will require leaders to reset their organizations, reframe their perceptions of problems and opportunities, and, most important, rethink the way they think. In a first-of-its-kind world, modelling past events to predict the future won't work.

Uncertainty 14

Uncertainty Supply Chain Scenario Planning Sharpe 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2016

In an age in which corporations and public organizations are increasingly under attack for short-term thinking , a dearth of vision , and perfunctory reactions to quick stimuli , it’s worth posing the question: Can mindfulness help organizations — not just individual leaders — behave more intentionally?

Strategy 8

Strategy Goleman Strategic Planning Parcell 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2013

Organizations should have their moonshots. They''re a keystone of what we call a "future-back" approach to strategy, which unlike the "present forward" nature of most strategic-planning processes, doesn''t operate under the assumption that tomorrow will be pretty much like today, and the day after pretty much more of the same.

Scenario Planning 8

Scenario Planning Consensus Strategic Planning Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2015

Examples include collaboration platforms such as MeetX , Virtualboardroom , Diligent , and Boardpad.) It would be an antidote to the insularity that so many boards are criticized for, and a useful complement to the simulations and war-game tools that help with scenario planning and anticipating competitors’ moves.

Scenario Planning 8

Scenario Planning Tools Technology Compliance 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2013

It''s the rare CIO who applies scenario planning to the business of IT. Yet, in a function driven by innovation and the uncertainties surrounding the application and implication of future technologies, not using scenarios is tantamount to management malpractice. Scenarios and Innovation.

Scenario Planning 8

Scenario Planning CIO Planning Uncertainty 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2013

McKinsey has identified more than 20 distinct submarkets in China, for example. They are used mostly for assembling models and prototypes, but also have been used to make intricate aerospace components and even replacement human organs. Innovations Are Changing The Way We Design Products.

Globalization 9

Globalization Supply Chain Pharmaceuticals McKinsey 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 10, 2014

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.

Planning 8

Planning Scenario Planning Transportation Workshop 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2015

A way around this fallacy, we’ve found, is a speed-dating version of scenario planning, one that takes hours rather than months. For example, the group defined the education driver as “the degree to which US elementary through higher education has developed curricula to produce science and technical talent.”

Kahneman 8

Kahneman Scenario Planning Pharmaceuticals Workshop 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2018

Waiting for perfect information to start planning is a risky approach because sufficient clarity may come too late, if at all, to take crucial action. For example, adjusting supply chains can take up to nine months or longer depending on internal and external constraints. Understand possible scenarios.

Planning 8

Planning Supply Chain Strategic Planning Workshop 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2016

Organizations have begun to realize that it can also be applied to a traditionally slow function: strategy. Sure, the value of an in-depth discovery phase; comprehensive, quantitative, and qualitative research; stakeholder interviews; scenario planning; and alignment are undisputed.

Agility 8

Agility Strategy Short-term Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

They will recall, for example, how ITT was implicated in overthrowing the Allende government in Chile in the early 1970s; and they will note the not-unfrequent practice of firms bribing dictators to secure key business concessions. In terms of scenario planning , firms would think about alternative paths.

Strategy 13

Strategy Politics Short-term Long-term 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2017

Boards will have to demonstrate competence at monitoring the organization’s transformation process. For example, directors of auto manufacturers and auto parts suppliers will need to understand how shared and autonomous mobility will accelerate electrification of the transportation sector, affecting car sales.

Tips 8

Tips Supply Chain Proposal Decentralization 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2015

In 2013, we conducted a number of interviews and surveyed 270 female managers in Fortune 500 organizations to determine what they liked and disliked about business meetings. To inject some predictability into the most crucial of organizational interactions, he uses scenario planning to map out strategies.

Politics 8

Politics Strategy 360-Degree Feedback Mentor 8