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Contingency Planning | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

This is so much the case that the most often overlooked aspect of strategic planning is adequately addressing contingencies as part of the planning process. The two most common outcomes created by a lack of contingency planning are: 1.) watching things grind to a halt as you scramble to evaluate options, and; 2.)

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Some Ideas To Help Accelerate Your SWOT Analysis

Six Disciplines

It''s also used to articulate the challenges an organization has, enabling contingency plans. Products and Services (price, quality, Finances (stability, profitability, debt to equity ratio). Political / Legal (government stability, controls and regulations, effects of terrorism). Opportunities and Threats.

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Ideas To Help Accelerate Your SWOT Analysis

Six Disciplines

It's also used to articulate the challenges an organization has, enabling contingency plans. Products and Services (price, quality, Finances (stability, profitability, debt to equity ratio). Political / Legal (government stability, controls and regulations, effects of terrorism). Opportunities and Threats.

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What Executives Really Need to Know About the “Emerging Markets Crisis”

Harvard Business Review

Yes, there are real reasons for MNCs to be concerned about political instability in Turkey and Ukraine, and economic policies in Argentina and China – all of which have occupied front pages recently. Meanwhile, in the Middle East the political crisis surrounding Prime Minister Erdogan made Turkey a target for currency traders.

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Why Quants Should Manage Your Supply Chain Risk

Harvard Business Review

And, when political turmoil in Egypt, Libya and elsewhere in the Mideast erupted, many businesses could only watch and wait to learn what it would mean for their supply chains. This is a concept fundamental to finance but that, for some reason, has not migrated into supply chain risk management.

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Fixing the Euro Zone and Reducing Inequality, Without Fleecing the Rich

Harvard Business Review

Setting aside the issues of political legitimacy this raises in democracies, high and sustained levels of inequality are bad for long-run growth. So one solution suggested by a growing number of economists in Europe is for central banks to “helicopter drop” money , and directly finance private sector spending.

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The Olympics as a Story of Risk Management

Harvard Business Review

Simulations of security incidents were rehearsed, and contingency plans for mass evacuations or emergency situations were put in place. Bids of applicant cities must now be presented according to a standardised template, with covenants of support from the relevant public authorities and political actors.