N2Growth Blog

APRIL 19, 2024

Preparing your Business for Unexpected Market Shifts In this volatile and unpredictable economy, businesses must prioritize resilience by taking a proactive approach to strategic planning to ensure sustainability. Engaging in risk management and scenario planning is also paramount.

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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. The primary step involves an objective assessment to determine operational efficiency and effectiveness.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2017

Organizations can now engage with customers and employees like never before, and the virtual environment holds the potential to drive operational efficiencies, save time and money, and open the exploration of new commercial avenues. This age is ripe with opportunity.

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Organization SPM Content Agility 8

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. They need to be embraced by leaders to enable them to deal with a world of radical uncertainty.

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Uncertainty Supply Chain Scenario Planning Sharpe 13

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.

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Supply Chain Retail Crisis Operations 8

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 2, 2012

Have you done scenario planning of measures beyond your immediate control, i.e. external factors which profoundly impact your livelihood? Adjustments must be periodically made to target markets, definition of terms and modification of strategies. Values in terms of efficiencies: Meantime between new product introductions.

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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.

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Flextime How To Scenario Planning Consultative 74