Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2018

It first influenced business decades ago, through the development of an unmistakably hard skill that senior managers must master: strategic planning. Leaders today would be wise to learn from the past and to view strategic planning and mindfulness together. Planning well, in his estimation, required “training the mind.”

Scenario Planning 13

Scenario Planning Strategic Planning Kleiner Management 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2018

To make the best decisions, managers need access to real-time data about their supply chain, but the limitations of legacy technologies can thwart the goal of end-to-end transparency. New digital technologies that have the potential to take over supply chain management entirely are disrupting traditional ways of working.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Management Retail Technology 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. Technology and its role in travel 2.0

Business Model 141

Business Model Executive Coaching Execution Blog 141

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

OCTOBER 6, 2014

The restaurant chain, Olive Garden, uses predictive analytics to guide its food buying and retail staffing plans. Now we have an opportunity to crunch the insights of key talent, data assets, and technologies from multiple internal and external sources, as they arise. Strategy-making can now happen in real time.

Strategy 12

Strategy Scenario Planning Scientific Management Supply Chain 12

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

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2014

The restaurant chain, Olive Garden, uses predictive analytics to guide its food buying and retail staffing plans. Now we have an opportunity to crunch the insights of key talent, data assets, and technologies from multiple internal and external sources, as they arise. Strategy-making can now happen in real time.

Strategy 8

Strategy Scenario Planning Scientific Management Supply Chain 8

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

APRIL 3, 2015

But there are plenty of other tools they could be using to do their jobs better — technologies that have proved useful in other contexts. Through virtual-reality technology, for instance, boards could gain a deeper understanding of their companies and the value they create. Boards Technology Communication Collaboration'

Scenario Planning 8

Scenario Planning Tools Technology Compliance 8

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. Appreciating the essence of technology and the technology of essence is key.

Class 9

Class Education Supply Chain Sports 9

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. With the digital revolution, value comes from technology, data, and algorithms. They are also prepared to take risks. In the industrial age, value came from machines. November 2016).

Organization 8

Organization SPM Content Agility 8

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.

Scenario Planning 85

Scenario Planning Risk Management Tools Planning 85

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

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 8, 2019

Now, in 2019, I think anything beyond 10-15 years is reasonably futile because we bump up against the technological singularity (the time when machine intelligence becomes so sophisticated that it causes currently unfathomable changes to human existence). Remember that the future doesn’t just happen – we shape it every day.

Flextime 74

Flextime How To Scenario Planning Consultative 74

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2017

Similarly, directors of power companies need to understand how advances in energy storage and information technology will accelerate development of micro-grids and the decentralization of the electric grid.

Tips 8

Tips Supply Chain Proposal Decentralization 8