Leadership, Scenario Planning and Tools

Scenario Planning vs. Forecasting: 6 Questions to Ask to Prepare for a Post-Pandemic Future

Leading Blog

MAY 12, 2021

There is often confusion between scenario planning and forecasting, with the terms used interchangeably and inconsistently. Scenario planning is focused on the future and involves defining different stories behind different paths that will lead to that future. passenger traffic for airlines).

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

N2Growth Blog

APRIL 19, 2024

By utilizing machine learning to streamline processes and leveraging data analytics to gain a deeper understanding of customer behavior, digital tools provide innovative solutions to today’s economic challenges. As a business leader in 2024, it is no longer optional but rather absolutely essential to leverage these digital tools.

Crisis Management

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Exploring Alternate Futures Can Help Identify Future Leaders

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

Scenarios and scenario-based planning are widely recognized as valuable tools in setting organizations’ visions and strategies. Shell is the most famed for their scenarios and their process for developing them and using them. Those who know scenario planning know that its value isn’t in “predicting the future.”

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Five Leadership Lessons from the Garden

Lead Change Blog

APRIL 4, 2016

Scenario planning, a strategy first employed by Royal Dutch Shell, brings experts from a wide range of fields together to discuss actions if different scenarios take place. Scenario planning allows you to think out—in advance—various options.

Scenario Planning

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4 Steps To Become An Aware Leader

The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

As Don Moore and Max Bazerman explain in Decision Leadership, they’re able to look at data objectively; avoid being misdirected by those who seek to deceive; are aware of things that appear too good to be true; and are generally able to think a few steps ahead.

Game Theory

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How to Become a Master Persuasive Storyteller

Skip Prichard

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Leadership Tip: Great communicators start by asking “What story does my presentation want to tell?” In the depths of the COVID-19 lockdown, executives at Salesforce developed a long-term scenario-planning tool to help enterprise customers rediscover their decision-making confidence in a world turned upside down.

Storytelling

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A Practical Approach to Managing Workforce During COVID-19

HR Digest

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Reskilling can prove to be a valuable tool and can help employees move to roles in the organization that weren’t an option before. Hiring managers must consider scenario planning to surmise all possible outcomes and device strategies to address each of these different possibilities. Use of tools.

Management

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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.”

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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. The strength of governance can be significantly amplified with the employment of a dedicated leadership team.

Compliance

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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. It is worth taking a closer look at their work.

Business Model

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Create a Strategy That Anticipates and Learns

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2014

The buzz around using predictive tools to analyze big data in discrete areas of a business is loud and deserved. The restaurant chain, Olive Garden, uses predictive analytics to guide its food buying and retail staffing plans. This isn’t a retread of scientific management , nor is it an updated take on scenario planning.

Strategy

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Farsighted: How We Make the Decisions That Matter the Most

Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

Figuring out which path to take requires other tools.” Engaging in scenario planning or gaming is not to make accurate predictions, but “the very act of trying to imagine alternatives to the conventional view helps you perceive your options more clearly.” The trick is to be intentional about it.

Cost-Benefit Analysis

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The Death of Supply Chain Management

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2018

Real-time data, unquestioned accuracy, relentless customer focus, process excellence, and analytical leadership underlie the control tower operations of these retail operations. Similarly, a steel company built a customized scenario-planning tool into its control tower platform that increases supply chain responsiveness and resilience.

Supply Chain

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Mindfulness Can Improve Strategy, Too

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2016

Mindfulness meditation — the practice of cultivating deliberate focused attention on the present moment – has caught on as a way to bring focus, authenticity, and intention to the practice of leadership. But it’s also possible to build mindfulness directly into planning exercises.

Strategy

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Leadership Digital

Scenario Planning vs. Forecasting: 6 Questions to Ask to Prepare for a Post-Pandemic Future

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

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Exploring Alternate Futures Can Help Identify Future Leaders

Five Leadership Lessons from the Garden

4 Steps To Become An Aware Leader

How to Become a Master Persuasive Storyteller

A Practical Approach to Managing Workforce During COVID-19

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

Board Performance Optimization: Beyond Compliance Towards Excellence

Business Model Generation : Blog | Executive Coaching | CO2 Partners

Create a Strategy That Anticipates and Learns

Farsighted: How We Make the Decisions That Matter the Most

The Death of Supply Chain Management

Mindfulness Can Improve Strategy, Too

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