Lead from Within

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Using Scenario Planning to Prepare for AI-Driven Disruptions Scenario planning involves anticipating potential AI-driven disruptions and developing strategies to address them. By exploring various “what-if” scenarios, leaders can identify vulnerabilities and devise contingency plans.

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Rich Gee Group

MAY 12, 2024

Scenario Planning : Use scenario planning to anticipate how different solutions might perform under various future conditions. This includes considering costs, resources, time, and possible impacts on other projects or departments. This can help you choose the most robust solution.

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Project Tactics Cost-Benefit Analysis Team 195

N2Growth Blog

MAY 13, 2024

These methods usually include mentoring, executive coaching, experiential learning, and scenario planning, all of which aim to enhance a leader’s ability to strategize, manage teams, maximize productivity, maintain positive relationships, and foster innovative thinking within the organization.

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Training Company Leadership Scenario Planning 221

In the CEO Afterlife

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

Separately, but on the same topic, a question for you, John: How do you feel about “scenario planning” exercises as a way to try to imagine and think through the most probable crises that may confront a particular company or organization? September 13, 2011 at 10:30 pm. Thanks for the comment, Paul.

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Crisis Management Crisis CEO Management 268

Lead from Within

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Regularly engage in scenario planning and seek out opportunities to tackle strategic challenges. The ability to think strategically is a hallmark of effective leadership. Hone your capacity to analyze complex situations, anticipate future trends, and make well-informed, big-picture decisions. Enhance Your Communication Skills.

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Lead from Within

JULY 25, 2024

For instance, I worked with a CEO who regularly conducted scenario planning exercises with his team, helping them navigate a major industry shift with minimal disruption. As a result, they consistently stay ahead of the curve, quickly adapt, and successfully maintain a competitive edge in an ever-evolving business environment.

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Long-term Scenario Planning Trends Execution 207

Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

Engaging in scenario planning or gaming is not to make accurate predictions, but “the very act of trying to imagine alternatives to the conventional view helps you perceive your options more clearly.” To make good decisions, we need to make those kinds of imaginative leaps. Johnson prescribes simulations to do just that.

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Cost-Benefit Analysis Scenario Planning Storytelling Objective 305

Lead Change Blog

APRIL 4, 2016

Scenario planning, a strategy first employed by Royal Dutch Shell, brings experts from a wide range of fields together to discuss actions if different scenarios take place. Scenario planning allows you to think out—in advance—various options.

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Scenario Planning Airlines Leadership Fashion 150

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Theyre increasingly using scenario planning as a key tool to manage risk and strategically unlock new value-creation opportunities. As companies navigate todays complex business and geopolitical landscape, CFOs have seen risk management rise to the top of their priorities.

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Scenario Planning Planning Risk Management Trends 27

Next Level Blog

APRIL 20, 2021

Part of the work of leadership right now is to have the patience to bring people together to do some scenario planning and diagnostic work on how the world and your marketplace has changed during the pandemic. Running the plays requires urgency; developing the playbook requires patience.

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Scenario Planning Learning-by-Doing Executive Coaching Follow-up 246

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Generative AI can help organizations overcome inherent shortcomings in conventional processes for performing contingency scenario planning. This article explores how the technology can do that and provides an example: a simulation that the authors conducted.

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Scenario Planning Planning Technology Article 29

Lead from Within

OCTOBER 14, 2024

By forecasting potential outcomes and scenarios, you can proactively adapt your strategies and make decisions that position your organization for success. Scenario Planning : AI can simulate multiple scenarios and assess the potential impact of different decisions.

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Scenario Planning Trends Leadership Styles Efficiency 127

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.

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Leadership Development Development Leadership Scenario Planning 130

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. The essence of governance excellence lies in nurturing a culture that upholds transparency, stakeholder engagement, and continuous improvement.

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Compliance Ethics Efficiency Metrics 243

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 21, 2023

Leaders of companies with operations in Russia share how they’ve navigated new and unexpected challenges during the war in Ukraine.

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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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Long-term Scenario Planning Short-term Guidelines 104

Skip Prichard

DECEMBER 9, 2021

In the depths of the COVID-19 lockdown, executives at Salesforce developed a long-term scenario-planning tool to help enterprise customers rediscover their decision-making confidence in a world turned upside down. Would you share one of your many examples of putting it in action?

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Storytelling How To Audience Scenario Planning 137

The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Moore and Bazerman cite the example of game theory as a good way to test out how situations may unfold but you might also use things like scenario planning or red teaming to better imagine various different futures and the things that contribute to their unfolding.

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Game Theory Scenario Planning Diversity Document 86

Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2020

A conversation with consultant Peter Scoblic on scenario planning lessons from the U.S. Coast Guard.

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Center for Creative Leadership

JUNE 22, 2020

Rather than waiting to be caught by surprise, they revel in scenario planning, learning about future trends, and imagining how they can influence the world to their advantage. Leaders who endure through challenge after challenge are learners at their core and they soak up knowledge from everywhere and everyone.

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Leadership How To Long-term Short-term 106

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.

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Business Model Executive Coaching Execution Blog 141

HR Digest

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Hiring managers must consider scenario planning to surmise all possible outcomes and device strategies to address each of these different possibilities. This workforce strategy may motive employees to learn new skills, and at the same time give them a sense of job security. Managing workforce in times of disruption.

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Management Supply Chain Crisis Scenario Planning 98

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2024

Start by proactively envisioning worst-case scenarios through brainstorming sessions, scenario planning, and risk assessments. From the takeoff and landing of a space shuttle to managing uncontrollable bleeding in the operating room, there are vital lessons to be learned from these industries and adapted into others.

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Health Care Uncertainty Scenario Planning Brainstorming 28

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2023

And fourth, scenario plan so that you have clear options for moving forward. Second, openly acknowledge that a setback has occurred to prevent backsliding. Third, adopt a growth mindset to help others strive for improvement instead of getting stuck on autopilot.

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Project Scenario Planning Management Tools 29

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2024

Just as archers practice visualization and cognitive reframing to manage stress and maintain composure in challenging situations, leaders can also use scenario planning and self-talk to become more resilient.

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Training Scenario Planning Stress Energy 28

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.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 2, 2012

Have you done scenario planning of measures beyond your immediate control, i.e. external factors which profoundly impact your livelihood? Do performance measures provide an early warning system for problems? How do you handle crisis management and preparedness? Have you prioritized and fully defined key measures and non-key measures?

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 25, 2013

Next comes Crisis Planning. What-if scenario planning is similar to the processes utilized in overall company strategic planning and visioning. The crisis plan must be part of the bigger process, not an adjunct or afterthought.

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Crisis Management Crisis Risk Management Budgeting 72

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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Innovation Excellence

DECEMBER 10, 2019

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

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2012

Scenario planning is impossible. They told me that in the world where there are no precedents, you have to trust your own judgment. There are multiple ways of getting around each challenge, and a variety of consequences that can come from your actions. So instead you simply move forward in the way you know in your heart to be right.

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Uncertainty Scenario Planning Media Planning 17

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 30, 2017

For example, you may be strategizing on a project that requires scenario planning. To simulate the scenario and possible outcomes, you can’t be too rigid. This kind of scenario planning will take your mind off constant focus but also prepare your brain to reach your goals.

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Scenario Planning Self-aware Energy Short-term 17

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.

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Planning Scenario Planning Transportation Workshop 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2014

This isn’t a retread of scientific management , nor is it an updated take on scenario planning. Scientific management and scenario planning, while forward-thinking, rely on information that’s in the rear view mirror. It’s an entirely different animal.

Strategy 14

Strategy Scenario Planning Scientific Management Supply Chain 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2011

To minimize their negative impact, there are two steps that managers can take: Plan ahead (as much as you can). One way to reinforce this assumption is to engage in scenario planning before pulling the trigger, preferably by engaging people who will be affected by the change.

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Airlines Supply Chain Scenario Planning Travel 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 6, 2011

For example, when it comes to preparation for a possible showdown involving North Korea, there has been no discussion or scenario planning between American and Chinese top brass — not a recipe for good crisis management.

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Politics Gordon Scenario Planning Globalization 15

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. They need to be embraced by leaders to enable them to deal with a world of radical uncertainty.

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Uncertainty Supply Chain Scenario Planning Sharpe 15