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Create a Strategy That Anticipates and Learns

Harvard Business Review

The restaurant chain, Olive Garden, uses predictive analytics to guide its food buying and retail staffing plans. At the same time, powerful new tools are becoming increasingly available to enable real-time strategic decision making. This isn’t a retread of scientific management , nor is it an updated take on scenario planning.

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Create a Strategy That Anticipates and Learns

Harvard Business Review

The restaurant chain, Olive Garden, uses predictive analytics to guide its food buying and retail staffing plans. At the same time, powerful new tools are becoming increasingly available to enable real-time strategic decision making. This isn’t a retread of scientific management , nor is it an updated take on scenario planning.