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CIOs: Scenario Planning Can Save Your Job

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.

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Board Performance Optimization: Beyond Compliance Towards Excellence

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2023

The concept delves more deeply than mere regulatory compliance, stretching towards a proactive approach that involves risk anticipation, scenario planning, and sound decision-making processes. A classic example is Google, which has continuously exemplified high-functioning governance and performance optimization.

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Compliance Efficiency Ethics Metrics

A Better Approach to Infrastructure Planning

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

Planning Scenario Planning Transportation Workshop

Create a Strategy That Anticipates and Learns

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2014

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. The definition of a market, customer, partner, or even competitor is now a moving target.

Strategy

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Create a Strategy That Anticipates and Learns

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2014

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. The definition of a market, customer, partner, or even competitor is now a moving target.

Strategy

Strategy Scenario Planning Scientific Management Supply Chain

Navigating the Complexities of Doing Business in Russia

Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2017

Yet Russia remains an important part of most Western multinationals’ emerging markets portfolios. For example, in 2014, at the onset of the sharp deterioration in U.S. This environment is altering how multinational firms operate in the country and market their products. further sanctions, oil price drop, protests, etc.)

Policies

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Is Your Company Ready to Protect Its Reputation from Deep Fakes?

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

An obvious scenario, one that some companies might find themselves dealing with in the not-too-distant future, is a faked video of their CEO making racist or sexist comments, or bribing a politician. But equally damaging could be a video about, for example, corporate spending.

Reputation

Reputation Company Video Crisis

Get Ready for the New Era of Global Manufacturing

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2013

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.

Globalization

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Setting Strategy in Egypt's (and Other) Shifting Sands: A Four-Part Approach

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

Developments in the Middle East — first the removal of long-time Tunisian President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali in January 2011 and now Hosni Mubarak's stepping down in Egypt — suggest that authoritarian regimes in the region are not immune to "people power."

Strategy

Strategy Politics Short-term Long-term

Living in a Radical State of Uncertainty

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2011

Old efficiency thinking based on engineering and rational market models needs to be replaced by a creative intelligence based on imagining, building and managing new futures. These firsts-of-their-kind developments require unprecedented degrees of creativity.". It's not a matter of training to choose option "A" or "B."

Uncertainty

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Reimagining the Boardroom for an Age of Virtual Reality and AI

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.

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China’s Slowdown: The First Stage of the Bullwhip Effect

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

It reached a peak on June 12 and then proceeded to lose over 40% of its value by the end of August despite efforts by the Chinese government to prop up the market. This performance, combined with policies of the Chinese government, led investors to believe that future growth would be ever higher, creating the stock-market bubble.

Supply Chain

Supply Chain Retail Crisis Operations

How Multinationals Should Be Planning for Brexit

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2018

Only a minority of firms is well ahead in planning and preparing a UK market strategy. At the recent Brexit Workshop we held for clients — in this case, 19 UK heads of some of the world’s largest multinational firms — 10 of them had not started or had only just begun planning for Brexit.

Planning

Planning Supply Chain Strategic Planning Workshop

ExxonMobil’s Shareholder Vote Is a Tipping Point for Climate Issues

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2017

This transformation will not be easy, and we expect that while a number of companies will be able to adapt and grow their market share, others will go out of business in the process or shrink significantly. In the meantime, more shareholder proposals will address climate change issues, raising important questions for boards of directors.

Tips

Tips Supply Chain Proposal Decentralization

What a Changing NAFTA Could Mean for Doing Business in Mexico

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2017

The possibility of a contentious renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) has led to delayed or canceled investments in what has been one of Latin America’s most economically stable markets. Renegotiating NAFTA. So, if a company manufactures products in Mexico to export to Canada and the U.S.

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A Better Approach to Infrastructure Planning

Create a Strategy That Anticipates and Learns

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Navigating the Complexities of Doing Business in Russia

Is Your Company Ready to Protect Its Reputation from Deep Fakes?

Get Ready for the New Era of Global Manufacturing

Setting Strategy in Egypt's (and Other) Shifting Sands: A Four-Part Approach

Living in a Radical State of Uncertainty

Reimagining the Boardroom for an Age of Virtual Reality and AI

China’s Slowdown: The First Stage of the Bullwhip Effect

How Multinationals Should Be Planning for Brexit

ExxonMobil’s Shareholder Vote Is a Tipping Point for Climate Issues

What a Changing NAFTA Could Mean for Doing Business in Mexico

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