Innovation, Scenario Planning and Technology

Crisis Management in the Digital Age: Lessons for 2024’s Unpredictable Economy

N2Growth Blog

APRIL 19, 2024

There is friction between globalization and regional autonomy, a conflict between the desire for sustainability and the lure of rapid development, ongoing political uncertainties, and the ever-increasing impact of digital technology. Yet, the rapid pace of technological evolution also embodies potent challenges.

Crisis Management

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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. Moreover, influential leaders enhance performance by fostering an environment with innovation, learning, and growth.

Compliance

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Paul J.H. Schoemaker: A second interview by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

MAY 23, 2012

Schoemaker is a pioneer in the field of decision sciences, among the first to combine the practical ideas of decision theory, behavioral economics, scenario planning, and risk management into a set of strategic decision-making tools for managers.

Scenario Planning

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Mindfulness as a Management Technique Goes Back to at Least the 1970s

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2018

Through his unique lens, he came to create what we know as scenario planning — a widely used strategic planning practice that now spans all sectors. An HBR contributor, he wrote two seminal articles about Shell and scenario planning in 1985. Planning well, in his estimation, required “training the mind.”

Scenario Planning

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Business Model Generation : Blog | Executive Coaching | CO2 Partners

CO2

JANUARY 2, 2011

The Empathy Map looks like this: In this chapter the authors walk you through processes to arrive a enhanced design like Customer Insights, ideation, providing an introduction to the value of visual thinking, how to use prototyping, story telling, and Scenario Planning. Technology and its role in travel 2.0

Business Model

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Create a Strategy That Anticipates and Learns

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2014

The restaurant chain, Olive Garden, uses predictive analytics to guide its food buying and retail staffing plans. And so the power of incumbency, firm competencies, and market share is giving way to the ability to engage across companies and industries, innovate, individualize, and deliver. Strategy-making can now happen in real time.

Strategy

Strategy Scenario Planning Scientific Management Supply Chain

Create a Strategy That Anticipates and Learns

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2014

The restaurant chain, Olive Garden, uses predictive analytics to guide its food buying and retail staffing plans. And so the power of incumbency, firm competencies, and market share is giving way to the ability to engage across companies and industries, innovate, individualize, and deliver. Strategy-making can now happen in real time.

Strategy

Strategy Scenario Planning Scientific Management Supply Chain

What a Good Moonshot Is Really For

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. And there are many reasons to believe that technology will make mass adoption of driverless cars conceivable in the next generation.

Scenario Planning

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Six Classes Your Employer Wishes You Could Take

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

Scenario planning is as essential for strategy formulation as it is for the design of next generation technologies and industries. Thinking in terms of scenarios forces people to rigorously examine fundamental assumptions and unexpected risks. Appreciating the essence of technology and the technology of essence is key.

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How Organizations Can Thrive in the Digital Economy - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM KORN FERRY

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2017

Agile businesses run planning and execution in parallel, investing in scenario planning so they can act promptly when opportunities arise. With the digital revolution, value comes from technology, data, and algorithms. They are also prepared to take risks. In the industrial age, value came from machines. November 2016).

Organization

Organization SPM Content Agility

Get Ready for the New Era of Global Manufacturing

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2013

Second, we see a raft of innovations that will alter how products are designed, manufactured and sold — everything from nanotechnologies to 3D printing. Then, manufacturing's most important role is as a driver of innovation, trade, and productivity. Innovations Are Changing The Way We Design Products.

Globalization

Globalization Supply Chain Pharmaceuticals McKinsey

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. Practice for Business Climate Changes.

Scenario Planning

Scenario Planning CIO Planning Uncertainty

An Exercise to Get Your Team Thinking Differently About the Future

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

Kahneman Scenario Planning Pharmaceuticals Workshop

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