Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

Figuring out which path to take requires other tools.” 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.” The trick is to be intentional about it.

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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. A future-oriented mindset is a powerful tool for leaders and organizations seeking to thrive in an increasingly complex and competitive business landscape.

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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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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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Lead from Within

OCTOBER 1, 2024

AI-powered tools and analytics offer a wealth of opportunities to enhance the effectiveness and personalization of these critical initiatives. As organizations strive to cultivate the next generation of leaders, the role of artificial intelligence (AI) in leadership development programs has become increasingly prominent.

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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. Adopting these digital tools has proven instrumental in enhancing performance, thus solidifying the pathway toward organizational excellence.

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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. It was a free tool made available to anyone, whether a Salesforce customer or not.

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HR Digest

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Reskilling can prove to be a valuable tool and can help employees move to roles in the organization that weren’t an option before. Hiring managers must consider scenario planning to surmise all possible outcomes and device strategies to address each of these different possibilities. Use of tools.

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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. It is worth taking a closer look at their work.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 8, 2019

Futurists use tools that systematize these recommendations including scenario planning, environmental scanning, Delphi surveying, and individual software programs like Fibres, Futures Platform, and Athena. You can do this by reading a ton and consulting experts in your field about what they’re seeing.

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Innovation Excellence

JUNE 15, 2020

Consulting is labor intensive, revenue is almost entirely based on billable hours, and most knowledge in the form of tools and templates have become commodities due to SlideShare and other platforms. Traditional consulting frameworks, tools, and templates will continue to be commoditized through free resources found on the net.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Setbacks are common on projects — but project managers hold four key tools to understand why they happen and how to help their teams move past them. And fourth, scenario plan so that you have clear options for moving forward. First, understand the neuroscience behind setbacks to encourage people to learn and grow.

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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.

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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

The buzz around using predictive tools to analyze big data in discrete areas of a business is loud and deserved. The restaurant chain, Olive Garden, uses predictive analytics to guide its food buying and retail staffing plans. This isn’t a retread of scientific management , nor is it an updated take on scenario planning.

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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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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

In addition, companies must begin to factor deep fakes and other reality-distortion techniques into their crisis-scenario planning. Communicators should make sure they have the right tools in place to deal with a fast-moving manipulated-reality crisis.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2012

Olympics organizers traditionally focused on reaction and recovery, using tools such as insurance (taken out for personal injury and property coverage), safety plans, and command and control structures. Ensuring readiness for Games-time (in Olympic-speak) now involves strategic pre-emption through stress-testing and scenario planning.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2014

The buzz around using predictive tools to analyze big data in discrete areas of a business is loud and deserved. The restaurant chain, Olive Garden, uses predictive analytics to guide its food buying and retail staffing plans. This isn’t a retread of scientific management , nor is it an updated take on scenario planning.

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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

APRIL 3, 2015

They’re starting to use more digital tools to gather information, post questions and comments, connect individuals in remote locations, and present ideas more visually. But there are plenty of other tools they could be using to do their jobs better — technologies that have proved useful in other contexts. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2016

Steve Jobs, a regular meditator, made use of mindfulness practice to challenge operating assumptions at Apple and to enhance creative insight in planning. Ray Dalio of Bridgewater Capital has likewise used mindfulness not only as a tool for increasing productivity but also enhancing situational awareness as a strategist.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

One paper focuses solely on high-performing “super forecasters”; another looks at the entire group; and a third makes the case for forecasting tournaments as a research tool. Interestingly, a smaller group were trained in scenario planning , but this turned out not to be as useful as the training in probabilistic reasoning.).

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The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Understand our threats and challenges – the third step requires us to have a better understanding of how decisions are made and whether the right systems and tools are in place to help us make wise decisions. Central to this is the ability to spot the threats and challenges that may stand in our way.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2018

Similarly, a steel company built a customized scenario-planning tool into its control tower platform that increases supply chain responsiveness and resilience.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2017

This requires scenario planning, thoughtful modeling of potential outcomes, an assessment of management’s capacity to drive transformational change in the business, and board capacity to choose and incentivize a competent management team.

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