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"Models of Scenario Building and Planning offers a unique and innovative exploration of the scenario approach. Importance is given to the analysis of the competitors' behaviour. If Models of Scenario Building Planning (MSBP) is there to serve strategy, it should consider with the utmost ca...
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Palgrave Macmillan,
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| Publisher Address: | Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : |
| Publication Dates: | 2014. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Bocconi on management series
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| Summary: |
"Models of Scenario Building and Planning offers a unique and innovative exploration of the scenario approach. Importance is given to the analysis of the competitors' behaviour. If Models of Scenario Building Planning (MSBP) is there to serve strategy, it should consider with the utmost care the interaction between the concerned company and its competitors as well as its possible consequences. For example, when we talk about the company environment, we should never forget that it is not made just by impersonal economic or social forces, but also, if not foremost, by specific human actors, the competing companies. This book also focuses on the analysis of risk and uncertainty in MSBP (avoiding, however, any excess in technicalities). Risk can be defined as the probability of nonsuccess: MSBP should stress not only the advantages of a strategy based on the scenario which will eventually materialise, but also the losses incurred by betting on the wrong scenario(s). This is a point which has not received adequate attention in the literature on scenarios. The importance of the link between scenarios and strategies is also explored (i.e., how strategies can be worked out on the basis of the scenarios which have been built)."-- |
| Carrier Form: | xxii, 293 pages : illustrations, forms ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 276-284) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781137293497 (hardback) : 1137293497 (hardback) |
| Index Number: | HD30 |
| CLC: | F272.1 |
| Call Number: | F272.1/M376 |
| Contents: | 1. Why Scenario Planning? -- 2. The Missions of Scenarios -- 3. The Fundamentals of Environmental Analysis -- 4. Information, Intelligence and Competitive Intelligence -- 5. The Principles of Scenario Building -- 6. From Scenario Building to Scenario Planning: Intuitive Logic and Trend Impact Analysis -- 7. From Scenario Building to Scenario Planning: Cross-Impact Analysis and Morphological Analysis -- 8. Scenario Planning, Strategies and Mental Models -- 9. Scenarios in Decision-Making -- 10. Scenarios and the Organisation. |