Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2014

The restaurant chain, Olive Garden, uses predictive analytics to guide its food buying and retail staffing plans. Not only can patients gather more comprehensive “home-based” data with Apple’s HealthKit platform , but also potentially stream that data (with permission) to their doctors via Epic’s systems. To what extent?

Strategy 11

Strategy Scenario Planning Scientific Management Supply Chain 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2014

The restaurant chain, Olive Garden, uses predictive analytics to guide its food buying and retail staffing plans. Not only can patients gather more comprehensive “home-based” data with Apple’s HealthKit platform , but also potentially stream that data (with permission) to their doctors via Epic’s systems.

Strategy 8

Strategy Scenario Planning Scientific Management Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

One crucial step is for the social media platforms to incorporate real-time forgery detection into all of their products, building out systems that can adapt with improvements in the technology. In addition, companies must begin to factor deep fakes and other reality-distortion techniques into their crisis-scenario planning.

Reputation 10

Reputation Company Video Crisis 10

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. IT management' IT Doesn''t Matter (to CEOs).

Scenario Planning 8

Scenario Planning CIO Planning Uncertainty 8

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 2, 2012

Questions to follow in Budgeting as part of Strategic Planning and Visioning processes include: Does this process increase your accountability to funding sources and to the public? Are budgeting measures used to manage performance? Is the performance management system focused upon outcomes? Collaborate with others.

Strategic Planning 70

Strategic Planning Budgeting Planning Competitive Advantage 70

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

Demand forecasting may become more challenging as demand patterns change, and companies may be advised to look into forecasting methods based on scenario planning rather than historical patterns. To improve its operations, Staples, the office-supplies giant, made major changes to its IT systems by merging two IT networks.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Retail Crisis Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2013

Manufacturing leaders will need to manage not only across geographies, but across their own organizational silos and beyond to a virtual ecosystem of suppliers and partners. For example, in a world of rising and complex risk, they will need to adopt planning systems that don't rely on point forecasts, but use scenario planning.

Globalization 9

Globalization Supply Chain Pharmaceuticals McKinsey 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 10, 2014

For proposed projects to gain traction, various stakeholders must be aligned; chief among these are the companies that rely on transportation systems to connect them to customers and suppliers, and the government planners responsible for building these trade arteries. More often, however, it’s for lack of agreement on what should be done.

Planning 8

Planning Scenario Planning Transportation Workshop 8