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

Strategy 11

Strategy Scenario Planning Scientific Management Supply Chain 11

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 13

Scenario Planning Strategic Planning Kleiner Management 13

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

Strategy 8

Strategy Scenario Planning Scientific Management Supply Chain 8

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. This final chapter puts it all together.

Business Model 141

Business Model Executive Coaching Execution Blog 141

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2016

As UCLA’s Richard Rumelt, a leading expert on strategic planning, writes in his book Good Strategy, Bad Strategy , one of the quintessential components of good strategy is the ability to take a step out of the internal storyline and shift viewpoints.

Strategy 8

Strategy Goleman Strategic Planning Parcell 8

Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

Figuring out which path to take requires other tools.” Almost every strategy described in this book ultimately pursues the same objective: helping you see the current situation from new perspectives, to push against the limits of bounded rationality, to make a list of things that would never occur to you.

Cost-Benefit Analysis 282

Cost-Benefit Analysis Scenario Planning Storytelling Objective 282

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2018

Sponsored by Accenture Strategy. Similarly, a steel company built a customized scenario-planning tool into its control tower platform that increases supply chain responsiveness and resilience. Insight Center. Competing in the Future. How to make your company more nimble and responsive.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Management Retail Technology 8

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. Reputation protection in this new world will require adding a new layer to a company’s rapid response and communications strategies.

Reputation 10

Reputation Company Video Crisis 10

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 15

Risk Management Management Committee Insurance 15

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

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 8, 2019

The simplest way to imagine and prepare for the future is to devise intelligent strategies that will serve your company well. Futurists use tools that systematize these recommendations including scenario planning, environmental scanning, Delphi surveying, and individual software programs like Fibres, Futures Platform, and Athena.

Flextime 74

Flextime How To Scenario Planning Consultative 74

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2017

Boards will also have to communicate how the organization’s strategy is compatible with a low-carbon economy and what investments will need to be made to remain competitive.

Tips 8

Tips Supply Chain Proposal Decentralization 8