Scenario Planning

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• A Future-Proof Government IT Strategy Must Challenge the Common Wisdom

  
  Andrea DiMaio — Authority: 490
  This morning I had a conversation with a client from a provincial government who is dealing with a quite complex but interesting planning challenge. He is supposed to develop an IT strategy that meets the requirements of the current national e-government plan, while taking into account a longer term view, stretching ...
  22 hours ago

• Use and Abuse of Scenarios

  
  Strategic Workforce Planning — Authority: 114
  McKinsey point out some techniques and traps for scenario planning this quarter. Scenario planning is a vital technique in workforce planning , one that all workforce planners should get comfortable with…and this article will help you see some of the benefits and traps. A must read! del.icio.us Tags: ...
  2 days ago

• Tis the season…

  
  Scenarios and Strategy — Authority: 108
  As we metabolize our way through the annual tryptophan haze, two contributions on a theme that’s been raised here before (c.f., for example,  here , here , and most fundamentally, here ), two video commentaries on the current state of economic play… First, via the ever-insightful Calculated Risk , a ...
  5 days ago

• The turkey problem in trend work: is your prediction robust to Thanksgiving?

  
  Future Savvy: Turning Foresight Into Value — Authority: 108
  We owe a debt to Nassim Taleb for memorably encapsulating the demerits of predicting by extrapolating trends as “The Turkey Problem,” and now seems the moment to reiterate it: Imagine you are a turkey. Every day someone comes to feed you. Every day you get bigger. Your portion sizes get bigger too, brought by a ...
  1 week ago

• ESA: Innovative Technologies from Science Fiction

  
  plausible futures — Authority: 403
  Science Fiction (SF) literature, artwork and films are works of imagination, but often contain some elements of plausibility, with the story revolving around some known facts as well as inventions and possibilities that are to all intents and purposes beyond our current technologies. Although Science Fiction is not ...
  1 week ago

• The C5 electric car and the art of getting the future less wrong than competitors do

  
  Future Savvy: Turning Foresight Into Value — Authority: 108
  In a recent Times article ‘ The future was never going to be the C5 ‘ actor-comedian Ben Millar offers a familiar criticism of foresight work. Inter alia he says: “For all our achievements in art, science, and technology, the human race has always been spectacularly bad at predicting the future. Literature is ...
  2 weeks ago

• One-upping Gordon Gekko…

  
  Scenarios and Strategy — Authority: 108
  A guest post from (Roughly) Daily … source “The injunction of Jesus to love others as ourselves is an endorsement of self-interest,” Goldman’s Griffiths said Oct. 20, his voice echoing around the gold-mosaic walls of St. Paul’s Cathedral, whose 365-feet-high dome towers over the City, London’s ...
  2 weeks ago

• Back to the land…

  
  Scenarios and Strategy — Authority: 108
  source: Grameen Foundation The Grameen Bank and the micro-lending boom that it spawned didn’t set out to discriminate by gender in its lending.  Still, the preponderance of their loans are to women.  As the Grameen Foundation web site explains : Why women? Studies have shown that women use the profits from ...
  3 weeks ago

• Value creating CEO - Steve Jobs, Innovation and Apple

  
  The Phoenix Principle — Authority: 415
  $150billion.   Thats a lot of money.  And thats how much shareholder value has increased at Apple since Steve Jobs returned as CEO.   Can you think of any other CEO that has aided shareholder wealth so much?  Do any of the cost cutting CEOs in manufacturing companies, financial services firms, or media companies ...
  3 weeks ago

• The only winning strategy is not to play the game…

  
  Scenarios and Strategy — Authority: 108
  How is it that America legislative politics have gotten so out of touch, so out of hand– so out of whack?  It’s no secret that lobbying has contorted the system.  Here, from UC Berkeley Post-Doc Fellow David Zetland, a wonderfully elegant explanation of how… He demonstrates the “all-pay auction,” in which ...
  4 weeks ago

• Disruptions vs. Disturbances - Walgreens

  
  The Phoenix Principle — Authority: 415
  Walgreens is apparently going through a dramatic change in leadership .  Drug Store News reported that the top 2 folks, including the top merchandiser, have left Walgreens in " What it Means and Why Its Important: Wlagreens confirms departure of Van Howe ."  The article discusses the "old guard" departure and ...
  4 weeks ago

• KedgeForward: Who We Are & What We Do

  
  KedgeForward! — Authority:
  Hello all! After much refinement (and excellent input from colleagues), we have distilled KedgeForward’s passions and protocol’s to their essence to show you – friends, colleagues, and potential clients. We look forward to partnering with you for competitive advantage, building creative processes, increasing ...
  4 weeks ago

• Wiser OWL learns to unravel doctor talk (The University of Manchester)

  
  Future of Health IT: Trends and Scenarios — Authority: 126
  I saw a really good news bit today, actually two days old but thats how far behind I am on non-critical email: A good example of the scale of the problem facing medics and computer scientists is the NCI Cancer Thesaurus that has swollen from 20,000 medical terms in 2004 to over 50,000 terms today. As new terms are ...
  4 weeks ago

• The romance of retailing…

  
  Scenarios and Strategy — Authority: 108
  A guest post from (Roughly Daily) : source But then, Zippy can console himself that, as recent honoree H.L. Mencken observed, “no one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public.” As we revisit our plans to open that book store , we might recall that this is the ...
  5 weeks ago

• Asking: A 59-minute Guide to Everything Board Members, Volunteers, and Staff Must Know to Secure the Gift: Jerold Panas, Bonnie McElveen-Hunter

  
  Make Money Myself — Authority: 137
  Editorial Reviews Review “ASKING is full of gems. No better blueprint for those of us embarking on the adventure of asking.” — Jerold Katz, Headmaster, The Park School “Jerry Panas writing on asking is like Michael Jordan writing on shot-making or Warren Buffet on investing.” — Kenneth ...
  5 weeks ago

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