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Planning for an Uncertain Future: 8 steps in Scenario Planning

August 30, 2017
Risk,Strategy,Uncategorized,Uncertainty
By expds2m

A recent article in MIT Sloan Management Review, “Using Scenario Planning to Reshape Strategy,”[i] indicated a resurgence of scenario planning that initially gained recognition in the 1960s and 70s. Royal Dutch/Shell has been the ‘poster child’ of success using scenario planning to address the instability and uncertainty during the 1973 oil crisis. I was fortunate…
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Why Traditional Strategy Does Not Win

May 6, 2017
Strategy
By expds2m

Traditional strategy development assumes that markets/industries are stable, but today that is not the rule for most firms. Strategy is built upon certain vital assumptions about the external environment and about what the firm can control. For example, the external environment includes competitor activity, customer needs, technological developments, economic trends and regulatory changes. Virtually all…
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Product Development New Year’s Resolution: Get a Strategy

January 7, 2016
Strategy,Strategy Segment
By expds2m

If you read our past blog posts, you probably gathered that we believe creating a well-defined strategic framework is one of the most important activities in executing your product development system. This is what we see as consultants when we work with: …organizations that have well-defined strategies: CLARITY Exude a sense of purpose and clarity…
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Strategy and Uncertainty

January 7, 2016
Strategy,Strategy Segment
By expds2m

When developing strategy, we have to make assumptions about the future of technology, customer needs and economic trends; in particular, what will change and how. Because the future is uncertain, we face the risk that our assumptions, and thus our strategy, are wrong. A traditional approach to creating strategy can be described as a waterfall. …
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10 Key Steps To Developing A Business Model

November 14, 2015
Strategy,Strategy Segment
By expds2m

Understanding your business model is crucial for evaluating the ability of the company to support a new product idea. Too often we see companies taking on a new product development project, only to discover late in the process that the company is missing key infrastructure, such as the appropriate distribution channels, expertise in key technologies…
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Got a Technology Strategy?

August 25, 2015
Strategy
By expds2m

Technology is another one of those nebulous terms that are hard to pin down. You may immediately think of sciences in the laboratory. But technology is the application of science. The key feature of science is that it is systematized. There is a body of knowledge, processes, and rules about how something behaves. Technology…
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