Harvard Business Review

JULY 10, 2014

For proposed projects to gain traction, various stakeholders must be aligned; chief among these are the companies that rely on transportation systems to connect them to customers and suppliers, and the government planners responsible for building these trade arteries. More often, however, it’s for lack of agreement on what should be done.

Planning 8

Planning Scenario Planning Transportation Workshop 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2014

The restaurant chain, Olive Garden, uses predictive analytics to guide its food buying and retail staffing plans. Not only can patients gather more comprehensive “home-based” data with Apple’s HealthKit platform , but also potentially stream that data (with permission) to their doctors via Epic’s systems. To what extent?

Strategy 11

Strategy Scenario Planning Scientific Management Supply Chain 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

As corporate leaders grapple with the question of how to prove something is (or isn’t) real, they will need to invest in new technology that helps them keep one step ahead of bad actors. But that technology is still in its early stages, and as it develops you can be sure that bad actors will be working on ways to defeat it.

Reputation 10

Reputation Company Video Crisis 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2015

A way around this fallacy, we’ve found, is a speed-dating version of scenario planning, one that takes hours rather than months. Obviously, a brief workshop like this one shouldn’t be used to shape strategy; that requires true scenario planning.

Kahneman 8

Kahneman Scenario Planning Pharmaceuticals Workshop 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2014

The restaurant chain, Olive Garden, uses predictive analytics to guide its food buying and retail staffing plans. Not only can patients gather more comprehensive “home-based” data with Apple’s HealthKit platform , but also potentially stream that data (with permission) to their doctors via Epic’s systems.

Strategy 8

Strategy Scenario Planning Scientific Management Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2012

A terrorist incident, a breakdown of the London rail system, power blackouts, volcanic ash clouds , flooding, an outbreak of infectious disease—the London organizing committee (LOCOG) and the International Olympic Committee (IOC) spent years thinking about every scenario they could imagine.

Risk Management 15

Risk Management Management Committee Insurance 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2013

Increasingly, customers demand more after-sale service; this is the norm now in business-to-business sales, but will spill over to consumer goods, too, thanks to some of the technology advances we'll talk about below. All over the world, automakers are mastering new drive train technologies.

Globalization 9

Globalization Supply Chain Pharmaceuticals McKinsey 9