Resource Fluidity
Do You Really Need All that Office Space?
The pandemic shifted many professionals to work at home. As we emerge from the crisis and companies shift to hybrid work arrangements, they should reconsider the size, location, and design of offices.
Read MoreLack of Talent Isn’t Your Problem. How You Use It Is.
As companies plan for a changing business climate, getting the right talent into a select number of business-critical jobs is key to outperforming the competition.
Read MoreIncorporating ‘Futures‘ Foresight Into The Process Of Strategic Planning
In the authors’ experience a fact of corporate life is that management all too often ignores future uncertainty. And, even if vaguely uncomfortable with this situation, it is unfamiliar with, or even skeptical about, ways to address it. Yet paradoxically the increasing pace of change on many dimensions makes this an ever more critical issue for effective…
Read MoreFigure Out the Right Hybrid Work Strategy for Your Company
As leaders grapple with how to return their teams to the office, they face an additional challenge when discussing hybridity: What they think is a single discussion is in fact three different discussions in disguise, each with different objectives. It’s a bit like trying to declare a winner among three teams that are each playing…
Read MoreGrowth for Both: How US Brands and Retailers Grow the Profit Pool for All
Manufacturers and retailers can improve joint business planning to help each other thrive amid mounting challenges in a postpandemic world.
Read MoreScenarios: Learning And Acting From The Future
The building of multiple alternative scenarios is justified in a reality dominated by uncertainty and a fast pace of change. If the future was predictable, we wouldn’t have this need to develop and explore scenarios, being the strategic planning and decisions based on a univocal and extrapolation-based forecast.
Read MoreLeveraging Strategic Initiatives to Capture the Future
Initiative management is the planning, overseeing, and sometimes culling of projects to reach a new strategic position in the future.
Read MorePretotyping vs. Prototyping — What’s the difference?
One of the most common mistakes made by founders and product developers is building something that they thought people would want, only to find out that their assumptions were wrong.
Read MoreThe growth driver — S&OP the ultimate engine aligning business plans
Given ongoing challenges of disruption, some S&OP processes may be constrained while other elements are proven essential to planning with agility. One of the key benefits of S&OP is collaboration across functional areas of the organization. Anaplan and Tata Steel discuss the importance of aligning strategy and execution to increase revenue for the business while…
Read MoreThe sharing economy’s next target: Business-to-business
Some parts of the sharing economy took a big hit during the pandemic. But businesses sharing with other businesses is poised to be an incredibly lucrative model for the future.
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