N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2023

The concept delves more deeply than mere regulatory compliance, stretching towards a proactive approach that involves risk anticipation, scenario planning, and sound decision-making processes. Moreover, influential leaders enhance performance by fostering an environment with innovation, learning, and growth.

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Innovation Excellence

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Let me share with you a key learning from my innovation work in and with diverse companies over the years. In brief, this notion can be delineated as follows: Sustainable, effective and impactful corporate innovation. One issue has been on my mind for quite some time. It can be termed pretty catchy as: Window of Corporate Opportunity.

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Lead from Within

OCTOBER 14, 2024

This innovative technology processes vast amounts of data at speeds incomprehensible to the human brain, providing insights that were once unattainable. By forecasting potential outcomes and scenarios, you can proactively adapt your strategies and make decisions that position your organization for success.

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Lead from Within

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Succession Planning and Scenario Planning AI can help organizations model various succession planning and talent management scenarios, stress-testing leadership bench strength and identifying potential gaps. Leverage AI to empower your next generation of leaders. #1

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The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

It’s often been argued that innovation progresses one funeral at a time, and there may be things in your own organization that need to die in order for you to start making smarter decisions. Central to this is the ability to spot the threats and challenges that may stand in our way.

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The Horizons Tracker

MAY 19, 2020

Scenario planning. The researchers simulated a number of different scenarios to try and gauge the impact different approaches to social distancing might have, both in terms of the number of people requiring inpatient and critical care, and those who ultimately die of the virus.

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Center for Creative Leadership

JUNE 22, 2020

This turbulence creates a pressure on the organization as a whole, and leaders in particular, who are responsible for guiding the way through change and innovation. Carefully developed long term plans can become obsolete overnight as we face futures that are undeniably different than what we anticipated.

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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. Technology and its role in travel 2.0

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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. Scenarios and Innovation.

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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.”

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2014

And so the power of incumbency, firm competencies, and market share is giving way to the ability to engage across companies and industries, innovate, individualize, and deliver. This isn’t a retread of scientific management , nor is it an updated take on scenario planning. It’s an entirely different animal.

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Strategy Scenario Planning Scientific Management Supply Chain 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2011

The kind of thinking generated by scenario planning, video/war-gaming, and design thinking need to move from the margins of corporations and government organizations to core strategic positions. A former assistant managing editor for Business Week , he is professor of Innovation and Design at Parsons The New School for Design.

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Uncertainty Supply Chain Scenario Planning Sharpe 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2013

At the heart of the future-back process is a consensus view of your company''s desired future state.This isn''t scenario planning, where you consider a range of possibilities. To be fair, hers was an off-the-cuff response to a question, and not a pre-planned statement, but hopefully she has something more up her sleeves.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

Scenario planning is as essential for strategy formulation as it is for the design of next generation technologies and industries. Thinking in terms of scenarios forces people to rigorously examine fundamental assumptions and unexpected risks. The kitchen can and should be a laboratory for innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2013

Second, we see a raft of innovations that will alter how products are designed, manufactured and sold — everything from nanotechnologies to 3D printing. Then, manufacturing's most important role is as a driver of innovation, trade, and productivity. Innovations Are Changing The Way We Design Products.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2014

And so the power of incumbency, firm competencies, and market share is giving way to the ability to engage across companies and industries, innovate, individualize, and deliver. This isn’t a retread of scientific management , nor is it an updated take on scenario planning. It’s an entirely different animal.

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Strategy Scenario Planning Scientific Management Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2016

Originating from agile software development, the sprint has entered the business mainstream as an increasingly popular means to accelerate business model, product, or service innovation. And how often have you crafted a meticulous three-year strategic plan, only to have it become obsolete after a few months, or even weeks?

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2017

Agile businesses run planning and execution in parallel, investing in scenario planning so they can act promptly when opportunities arise. This means moving away from traditional power structures, toward open, transparent, and connected structures and organizational cultures that encourage innovation and experimentation.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2016

Under such a scenario, multinationals would see expanded opportunity across diverse sectors. The key to winning in Cuba will be to prepare with rigorous scenario planning in order to avoid being left on the sidelines once the market begins to bloom.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2018

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. Our clients revealed that they were increasing their focus on innovation to enhance their value proposition.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2017

Firms in innovation-driven industries, such as pharmaceuticals and medical devices, have long supported greater standardization across borders, with stronger intellectual property protections and enforcement of regulatory standards. Multinationals are heavily pushing for either minor tweaking to the agreement or a modernization of NAFTA.

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