Review, Scenario Planning and Tools

How Project Managers Can Better Navigate Setbacks

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Setbacks are common on projects — but project managers hold four key tools to understand why they happen and how to help their teams move past them. And fourth, scenario plan so that you have clear options for moving forward. First, understand the neuroscience behind setbacks to encourage people to learn and grow.

Project

Project Scenario Planning Management Tools

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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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

Business Model Executive Coaching Execution Blog

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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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

Cost-Benefit Analysis Scenario Planning Storytelling Objective

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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Reimagining the Boardroom for an Age of Virtual Reality and AI

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2015

They’re starting to use more digital tools to gather information, post questions and comments, connect individuals in remote locations, and present ideas more visually. But there are plenty of other tools they could be using to do their jobs better — technologies that have proved useful in other contexts. Insight Center.

Scenario Planning

Scenario Planning Tools Technology Compliance

Is Your Company Ready to Protect Its Reputation from Deep Fakes?

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

In addition, companies must begin to factor deep fakes and other reality-distortion techniques into their crisis-scenario planning. Communicators should make sure they have the right tools in place to deal with a fast-moving manipulated-reality crisis.

Reputation

Reputation Company Video Crisis

The Death of Supply Chain Management

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2018

Similarly, a steel company built a customized scenario-planning tool into its control tower platform that increases supply chain responsiveness and resilience.

Supply Chain

Supply Chain Management Retail Technology

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

Strategy Scenario Planning Scientific Management Supply Chain

Mindfulness Can Improve Strategy, Too

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2016

Harvard Business Review contributors Daniel Goleman and Bill George have described mindfulness as a means to listen more deeply and guide actions through clear intention rather than emotional whims or reactive patterns. But it’s also possible to build mindfulness directly into planning exercises.

Strategy

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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.

Scenario Planning

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The Olympics as a Story of Risk Management

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2012

Olympics organizers traditionally focused on reaction and recovery, using tools such as insurance (taken out for personal injury and property coverage), safety plans, and command and control structures. Ensuring readiness for Games-time (in Olympic-speak) now involves strategic pre-emption through stress-testing and scenario planning.

Risk Management

Risk Management Management Committee Insurance

A Better Approach to Infrastructure Planning

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

Planning Scenario Planning Transportation Workshop

What Research Tells Us About Making Accurate Predictions

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

One paper focuses solely on high-performing “super forecasters”; another looks at the entire group; and a third makes the case for forecasting tournaments as a research tool. Interestingly, a smaller group were trained in scenario planning , but this turned out not to be as useful as the training in probabilistic reasoning.).

Open-book

Open-book Participative Sample Training

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

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2017

This requires scenario planning, thoughtful modeling of potential outcomes, an assessment of management’s capacity to drive transformational change in the business, and board capacity to choose and incentivize a competent management team.

Tips

Tips Supply Chain Proposal Decentralization

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How Project Managers Can Better Navigate Setbacks

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

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

Farsighted: How We Make the Decisions That Matter the Most

Create a Strategy That Anticipates and Learns

Reimagining the Boardroom for an Age of Virtual Reality and AI

Is Your Company Ready to Protect Its Reputation from Deep Fakes?

The Death of Supply Chain Management

Create a Strategy That Anticipates and Learns

Mindfulness Can Improve Strategy, Too

CIOs: Scenario Planning Can Save Your Job

The Olympics as a Story of Risk Management

A Better Approach to Infrastructure Planning

What Research Tells Us About Making Accurate Predictions

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

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