Boards & Corporate Governance
Using Scenario Planning to Reshape Strategy
A new approach to scenario planning can help companies reframe their long-term strategies.
Strategic Planning
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Create Your Company’s Future
Recently, MIT SMR readers have been looking for information on scenario planning — a trend that may reflect current social, political, and economic uncertainty. This trend led to our Summer 2017 special report on creating your company’s future.
Developing Strategy
The Flare and Focus of Successful Futurists
Forecasting is recognizing how current patterns may impact the future — and it’s a learnable skill.
Disruption
Reframing Growth Strategy in a Digital Economy
Big corporations need new strategies in a world of digital disruptors, where three new truths rule.
Collaboration
Protect Your Project From Escalating Doubts
Projects can lose momentum if stakeholders grow skeptical. Here’s how to avert a ‘cycle of doubt.’
Developing Strategy
Five Myths About Digital Transformation
Understanding these five myths will give you a more realistic view of digital transformation.
From the Archives: Managing in a Time of Uncertainty
Strategic planning is key to succeeding in a time of uncertainty and political change.
Analytics & Business Intelligence
Getting Started With IoT
Many organizations are finding success with IoT projects with thoughtful planning.
Disruption
How to Prepare for a Brexit-Size Disruption
Companies need contingency plans if they see a Brexit-like disruption on their horizon.
Developing Strategy
How Scenario Planning Influences Strategic Decisions
New research finds scenario-based decision making helps increase executives’ strategic flexibility.
Business Models
Achieving Successful Strategic Transformation
This article explores the distinctive traits of companies that successfully transform themselves.
Developing Strategy
Why Forecasts Fail. What to Do Instead
Managers need to learn from history about what they can and cannot predict, and develop plans that are sensitive to surprises.
Executing Strategy
Do You Have A “Plan B”?
Many companies have trouble making the transition from a failing business model to one that works. Often, one culprit is an inability to experiment.
Developing Strategy
Strategy As Love, Not War
MIT Sloan School professor Arnoldo C. Hax says that companies need a different approach to thinking about strategy.
Executing Strategy
Closing the Gap Between Strategy and Execution
Strategy can be thought of as a loop with four steps: making sense of a situation, making choices, making things happen and making revisions.