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. To keep that engine running, a small number of people must be recruited or trained in new skills at the intersection of operations and technology.

Supply Chain 8

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Center for Creative Leadership

JUNE 22, 2020

Effective strategic leadership – and the ability to solve strategic leadership challenges – requires different skills and perspectives than those required by day-to-day operational leadership. If you’re a good leader, aren’t you in turn a strategic leader?

Leadership 106

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

The ability to immerse oneself in terabytes of data, identify (individually or collaboratively) what''s most important and restructure it in an accessible, meaningful and usable form for a variety of audiences will increasingly be an essential skill. Scenarios demand expository and analytic, as well as literary, skills.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2013

The new era will give manufacturing companies an opportunity to help their host economies in all of those areas; it will create high-skill jobs, particularly in design, big data, and other service roles, but not masses of production-line positions. Demand is Shifting. Let's take a look at the demand shifts that will define this new phase.

Globalization 9

Globalization Supply Chain Pharmaceuticals McKinsey 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2015

It would be an antidote to the insularity that so many boards are criticized for, and a useful complement to the simulations and war-game tools that help with scenario planning and anticipating competitors’ moves.

Scenario Planning 8

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2018

The company should look to bring in staff from other markets to apply their skill sets and ideas. Understand possible scenarios. After the Brexit team understands the broader impact of Brexit on the business, it needs to start scenario planning around potential developments of Brexit negotiations and the UK economy.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

But prediction is also a learned skill, at least in part — it’s something that we can all become better at with practice. Interestingly, a smaller group were trained in scenario planning , but this turned out not to be as useful as the training in probabilistic reasoning.). Rushing produces bad predictions.

Open-book 8

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 8, 2019

Futurists use tools that systematize these recommendations including scenario planning, environmental scanning, Delphi surveying, and individual software programs like Fibres, Futures Platform, and Athena. You can do this by reading a ton and consulting experts in your field about what they’re seeing.

Flextime 74

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