Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2018

Similarly, a steel company built a customized scenario-planning tool into its control tower platform that increases supply chain responsiveness and resilience. The trend is clear: Technology is replacing people in supply chain management — and doing a better job. Reskilling implications.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Management Retail Technology 8

Center for Creative Leadership

JUNE 22, 2020

Rather than waiting to be caught by surprise, they revel in scenario planning, learning about future trends, and imagining how they can influence the world to their advantage. Leaders who endure through challenge after challenge are learners at their core and they soak up knowledge from everywhere and everyone.

Leadership 106

Leadership How To Long-term Short-term 106

Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2013

At the heart of the future-back process is a consensus view of your company''s desired future state.This isn''t scenario planning, where you consider a range of possibilities. But in turbulent times, these approaches can lead companies to miss critical market inflection points. Finally, it is imaginative.

Scenario Planning 8

Scenario Planning Consensus Strategic Planning Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2017

Induced by rising economic pressures – and reflective of trends in other emerging markets – the Russian government has been pressured to support local businesses, often to the detriment of foreign investors. Our clients in the area have already noticed several changes that make it harder and costlier to do business there.

Policies 9

Policies Supply Chain Politics Operations 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2015

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

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

Companies should anticipate this trend and start developing “value pricing” and less expensive products. 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.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Retail Crisis Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2013

For example, in a world of rising and complex risk, they will need to adopt planning systems that don't rely on point forecasts, but use scenario planning. To make sure location decisions line up with these input needs, we recommend a more nuanced "total factor performance" approach. but also the risks.

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. Obviously, a brief workshop like this one shouldn’t be used to shape strategy; that requires true scenario planning.

Kahneman 8

Kahneman Scenario Planning Pharmaceuticals Workshop 8

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 8, 2019

Being a futurist means paying attention to new patterns or trends that are slowly percolating up through the market and/or society that have the potential to catch on in a major way. It’s about coming up with possible scenarios for the future given these developments.

Flextime 74

Flextime How To Scenario Planning Consultative 74