Marketing, Scenario Planning and Supply Chain

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

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.

Crisis Management

Crisis Management Crisis Management Uncertainty

A Practical Approach to Managing Workforce During COVID-19

HR Digest

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Hiring managers must consider scenario planning to surmise all possible outcomes and device strategies to address each of these different possibilities. If the organization discovered that the production in their supply chain was disrupted, how would it impact the overall business outcomes? Use of tools.

Management

Management Supply Chain Crisis Scenario Planning

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. This strategy has significantly boosted its performance in technology and digital space, solidifying its position as a global market leader.

Compliance

Compliance Efficiency Ethics Metrics

China’s Slowdown: The First Stage of the Bullwhip Effect

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

For the last two months, global supply chains have been experiencing the first stage of a bullwhip effect triggered by uncertainties about the severity of China’s economic slowdown. In the context of a normal economy with modest demand volatility, the bullwhip effect causes volatility to vary across the tiers of a supply chain.

Supply Chain

Supply Chain Retail Crisis Operations

Create a Strategy That Anticipates and Learns

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. The definition of a market, customer, partner, or even competitor is now a moving target.

Strategy

Strategy Scenario Planning Scientific Management Supply Chain

Navigating the Complexities of Doing Business in Russia

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

Policies Supply Chain Politics Operations

Create a Strategy That Anticipates and Learns

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. The definition of a market, customer, partner, or even competitor is now a moving target.

Strategy

Strategy Scenario Planning Scientific Management Supply Chain

Living in a Radical State of Uncertainty

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2011

As a result, the risk-reward ratios that we take for granted, such tight global supply chains, may no longer make sense. 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.

Uncertainty

Uncertainty Supply Chain Scenario Planning Sharpe

Get Ready for the New Era of Global Manufacturing

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. Increasingly frequent natural disasters such as the Japanese tsunami have made clear how risky complex global supply chains can be.

Globalization

Globalization Supply Chain Pharmaceuticals McKinsey

The Big Picture of Business: Putting Budgeting Into Perspective, The Bigger Picture of Strategic Planning

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? Supply chain management should be implemented. Supply chain management should be implemented. Quality management should be implemented. Priorities change.

Strategic Planning

Strategic Planning Budgeting Planning Competitive Advantage

How Multinationals Should Be Planning for Brexit

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

Planning Supply Chain Strategic Planning Workshop

What a Changing NAFTA Could Mean for Doing Business in Mexico

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. So, if a company manufactures products in Mexico to export to Canada and the U.S.

Supply Chain

Supply Chain Depreciation Uncertainty Marketing

ExxonMobil’s Shareholder Vote Is a Tipping Point for Climate Issues

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

Tips Supply Chain Proposal Decentralization

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