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. Strategy-making can now happen in real time. Strategy can anticipate and learn.

Strategy 8

Strategy Scenario Planning Scientific Management Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2017

Yet Russia remains an important part of most Western multinationals’ emerging markets portfolios. This environment is altering how multinational firms operate in the country and market their products. This has been beneficial for some Russian industries but has reduced market access for foreign firms.

Policies 8

Policies Supply Chain Politics Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2013

They''re a keystone of what we call a "future-back" approach to strategy, which unlike the "present forward" nature of most strategic-planning processes, doesn''t operate under the assumption that tomorrow will be pretty much like today, and the day after pretty much more of the same. Innovation Strategy' First, it inspires.

Scenario Planning 8

Scenario Planning Consensus Strategic Planning Innovation 8

Center for Creative Leadership

JUNE 22, 2020

Intense crises and rapid change reveal gaps in organizations’ strategies, preparedness, and ability to respond quickly. Carefully developed long term plans can become obsolete overnight as we face futures that are undeniably different than what we anticipated. Things that don’t work as planned indicate that more learning is required.

Leadership 106

Leadership How To Long-term Short-term 106

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Corporate marketers and communicators, as the people who supply platforms with the money that is their lifeblood, are in a strong position to push for faster action. 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

MARCH 16, 2016

A further overrepresentation of the actual market size is determined by methodological inconsistencies. My company, Frontier Strategy Group, is now forecasting expansion for Cuba to be 3.1% This effectively means that these wages are overvalued by as much as 2400%. This is why U.S. Forecasting Cuba’s Future.

GDP 8

GDP Telecommunications Scenario Planning Travel 8

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 8

Supply Chain Retail Crisis Operations 8

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. In this environment, manufacturing companies are rethinking their location strategies and not simply following the path of lowest wages.

Globalization 9

Globalization Supply Chain Pharmaceuticals McKinsey 9

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.

Uncertainty 13

Uncertainty Supply Chain Scenario Planning Sharpe 13

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. Digitally sustainable organizations are agile: They think fast, decide fast, execute fast, fail fast, learn fast, and scale fast. They are also prepared to take risks.

Organization 8

Organization SPM Content Agility 8

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 25, 2013

Thinking Through the Strategies. The Business Tree : Growth Strategies and Tactics for Surviving and Thriving. The Business Tree : Growth Strategies and Tactics for Surviving and Thriving. Our strategy to address the crisis was three-fold. The process of strategy development is not esoteric. by Hank Moore.

Crisis Management 77

Crisis Management Crisis Risk Management Budgeting 77

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 2, 2012

The Business Tree : Growth Strategies and Tactics for Surviving and Thriving. Budgets get more attention than the umbrellas under which they rightfully belong: Strategic Planning and Visioning. Budgeting by itself is a minor piece of business strategy. The term Budgeting gets tossed around in many ways. Budgets get politicized.

Strategic Planning 68

Strategic Planning Budgeting Planning Competitive Advantage 68

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 8

Planning Scenario Planning Transportation Workshop 8

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 8

Planning Supply Chain Strategic Planning Workshop 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

What is needed now are well thought-out nonmarket strategies — beginning with a recognition that a nonmarket strategy is much bigger than litigation and purchasing political risk (though both are valuable). Thus managers play it safe, choosing to replicate rivals' strategy and, ultimately, to earn close-to-the-mean returns.

Strategy 13

Strategy Politics Short-term Long-term 13

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.

Flextime 74

Flextime How To Scenario Planning Consultative 74

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 8

Tips Supply Chain Proposal Decentralization 8

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. Indeed, on May 18 the Trump administration notified the U.S.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Depreciation Uncertainty Marketing 8