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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. Marketing (company image, reputation, positioning, market share, growth). Political / Legal (government stability, controls and regulations, effects of terrorism). Having trouble starting out your SWOT analysis?

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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. Marketing (company image, reputation, positioning, market share, growth). Political / Legal (government stability, controls and regulations, effects of terrorism). Having trouble starting out your SWOT analysis?

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

Harvard Business Review

As currencies and stock markets have tumbled in emerging markets, the business media has been dominated by cries of an “Emerging-Markets Crisis.” The media uses “emerging-markets crisis” as shorthand, but recent market turmoil was actually about relatively few countries.

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A CEO’s Guide to Navigating Brexit

Harvard Business Review

Political process. This can be done in four steps: Attach a “value” to each source of uncertainty — strong vs. light currency depreciation, high vs. low future EU market access — along with your perception of likelihood (plausible, likely, unlikely) to build an “ uncertainty map.” For example, a U.S.

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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. It would provide the Fed and Bank of England with a contingency plan should their economies faced renewed shocks.

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Why Quants Should Manage Your Supply Chain Risk

Harvard Business Review

When Thai flooding created significant shortages in the hard disc drive market, manufacturers lost millions of dollars. 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.