Scenario Planning: The link between future and strategy by Mats Lindgren

By Mats Lindgren

Fresh learn within the box of commercial procedure has proven that strategic flexibility should be completed via a state of affairs making plans point of view for long term pageant and function. The authors have drawn upon examples and case reviews to increase a brand new version for situation making plans that's heavily built-in with approach and innovation.

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The turbulence of the 1990s and the renewed interest in managing uncertainty through scenario thinking and planning have caused all major management consultancies to develop their own scenario methodologies. Today, scenarios still play a major role at Shell and, An Introductory Overview 39 ......................................................................................................................................... although Shell is often considered the corporate champion of scenarios, turbulence scenario planning has become a more or less standard tool in most companies and consultancy firms’ toolboxes over the last decade or so.

The guiding principle is process and vision control. Efficient: oriented towards production and results. The guiding principle is management of objectives Integrating: concerned with the right and left sides of the brain together. This has three aspects: Scenario Planning ......................................................................................................................................... 8 The two ‘brain-halves’ of the organization – – – Planning, that is, introducing structures into the creative right half of the brain and forming ideas and visions into concrete goals and plans.

But he falls short when it comes to action. The extremely intuitive and possibility-oriented person often has difficulty in making decisions. He wants a more secure foundation on which to base them. There are so many possibilities. If we wait a while longer there’ll be even more . . Acting: presence and learning Learning can be said to be mastering the art of integrating new information into old knowledge, while having a clear purpose. For your organization to learn something, it must consist of individuals who are able to take in signals from the outside world and the inside world; people who work and act, with their work aimed at producing results.

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