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Using Trends and Scenarios as Tools for Strategy Development: Shaping the Future of Your Enterprise

Using Trends and Scenarios as Tools for Strategy Development: Shaping the Future of Your Enterprise

          
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Is my enterprise really prepared for future business? What can I do to become more competitive? Ulf Pillkahn's book is directed at all of those seeking answers to these questions: executives in strategic positions, business analysts, consultants, trend scouts, marketing and product managers and research engineers. The book presents the two most powerful tools for future planning: environmental analysis, based on the use of trends, as well as the development of visions of the future through the use of scenarios. While scenarios are generally regarded as a classical management tool, it is expected that the importance of trends will gain tremendously in the coming years. Pillkahn demonstrates how to build robust strategies by aligning the results of environmental and enterprise scenarios, thereby offering entirely new insights. "Using Trends and Scenarios as Tools for Strategy Development" convincingly illustrates why efficient observation of the environment of an enterprise is an absolutely essential factor for strategy development, and why strategy development only works if it is institutionalized as a permanent enterprise process. It also addresses the issue of what information is needed to keep both processes running. The book further describes how trends can be categorized, and offers advice on how to glean the essential information from the vast variety of trends. Information is provided on how scenarios are used as a holistic instrument for creating visions and pictures of the future, and how the results of trend research and scenario techniques find their way into entrepreneurial strategy development. An optimized strategy development process is also outlined. Practical examples and real-life pictures of the future round off Pillkahn's insightful discussion of future business planning.

Table of Contents:
Introduction 13 CHAPTER 1 Venturing a Look into the Future Moving from the Past into the Future via the Present 1.1 Reflections on the Future 23 1.2 Changes in Our Environment 41 1.3 Enterprise Development 45 1.4 Present and Future Challenges 50 1.5 Enterprise Intelligence Test 72 CHAPTER 2 Detection Detecting and Recording Changes in the Enterprise Environment 2.1 A Plea for Foresight and Prior Action 81 2.2 The Enterprise Environment 82 2.3 Information as a Basis for Decision Making 86 2.4 How We Can Learn to Understand Our Environment 95 2.5 The Future of Television (I) 104 CHAPTER 3 Reflection Sorting and Structuring Information 3.1 Changes in the Environment 115 3.2 Stability – Paradigms and Assumptions 120 3.3 Changes – Trends 122 3.4 Uncertainty 142 3.5 Contradictions 142 3.6 Indeterminate Elements – Chaos and Wildcards 143 3.7 From Hypothesis to Future Element 144 3.8 The Future of Television (II) 147 CHAPTER 4 Understanding Anticipating the Future 4.1 Memories of the Future 155 4.2 The Possibilities and Limits of Foresight 158 4.3 Origins and Development of Foresight 162 4.4 Pictures of the Future 174 4.5 Demarcation and Focus 177 4.6 Selecting Future Elements 179 4.7 The Actual “Look” into the Future 179 4.7.1 Principles and Methods of Analyzing the Future 181 4.7.2 Methods of Analyzing the Present 194 4.7.3 Methods of Opinion Formation and Decision Making 194 4.7.4 Selection of Foresight Methods (“Looking into the Future”) 198 4.7.5 Developing Hypotheses 198 4.8 Development of Scenario Frameworks and Scenarios 200 4.9 Creating Pictures of the Future 206 4.10 Evaluation of Scenarios 208 4.11 Pictures of the Future 209 4.12 The Future of Television (III) 211 4.13 Lessons Learned 227 CHAPTER 5 Planning Seizing Opportunities and Avoiding Hazards 5.1 Planning for the Future: An Insurance Policy 233 5.2 Strategy Review 234 5.3 Developing Strategies in Turbulent Environments 240 5.4 Enterprise Analysis 243 5.5 Strategy Synthesis 253 5.5.1 Basic Understanding of Strategy and Strategic Goals 254 5.5.2 Strategic Options and Strategic Fit 257 5.5.3 Developing Enterprise Scenarios 259 5.5.4 Developing Strategic Options 260 5.5.5 Strategic Fit 262 5.5.6 Robust Strategies 263 5.6 Strategic Decisions 265 5.7 Examining the Future in the Context of Strategy Development 266 5.8 The Future of Television (IV) 272 CHAPTER 6 Implementation Managing Change 6.1 The Dimensions of Change 287 6.2 The Logic of Change 289 6.3 The Reality of Change in Enterprises 290 6.4 Elements of Change 294 6.4.1 The First S: Strategy 297 6.4.2 The Second S: Structures 298 6.4.3 The Third S: Systems 301 6.4.4 The Fourth S: Style 305 6.4.5 The Fifth S: Staff 307 6.4.6 The Sixth S: Skills 309 6.4.7 The Seventh S: Shared Values – Visions 310 6.4.8 F – Foresight 316 6.4.9 E – Entrepreneurship 317 6.4.10 I – Innovation Management versus Innovation 317 6.5 Orientation in the Process of Change 321 6.6 Including the Results of Analysis 325 6.7 Reflection, reflection, reflection 326 6.8 The Future of Television (V) 327 CHAPTER 7 Learning Applications and Examples 7.1 Dealing with Uncertainty in Practice 335 7.2 The Future of Petroleum – Introduction 335 7.3 The Future of Petroleum – An Information Base 338 7.4 Compression and Operation 358 7.5 Generating Environment Scenarios 364 7.5.1 Scenario 1: “Empty” 368 7.5.2 Scenario 2: “Transition” 371 7.5.3 Scenario 3: “Fight” 374 7.5.4 Scenario 4: “Independence” 377 7.6 Generating Enterprise Scenarios 381 7.6.1 Scenario 1: Cautious Innovation 384 7.6.2 Scenario 2: No Experiments 386 7.6.3 Scenario 3: No Plan 387 7.6.4 Scenario 4: Aggressive 389 7.7 Strategic Implications 392 7.8 Example Summary 394 CHAPTER 8 Homework 397 What You Should Do CHAPTER 9 Appendix I 403 100 Sources of Information CHAPTER 10 Appendix II Short Profiles of Selected Methods 10.1 Macro Environment Analysis 419 10.1.1 Environment Analysis (STEEPV) 419 10.1.2 Trend Analysis 420 10.1.3 Issue Management 421 10.2 Micro Environment Analysis 422 10.2.1 Stakeholder Analysis 422 10.2.2 Customer Profile Analysis 423 10.2.3 Industry and Market Analysis 424 10.3 Enterprise Analysis 426 10.3.1 The 7S Model .426 10.3.2 Value-chain Analysis 427 10.3.3 Benchmarking 428 10.4 Foresight 429 10.4.1 Morphological Analysis 429 10.4.2 Forecast 430 10.4.3 Weak-signal Analysis 431 10.5 Strategic Analysis 431 10.5.1 BCG Matrix 431 10.5.2 SWOT Analysis 433 10.5.3 Ansoff Matrix 434 10.6 Change Management 435 10.6.1 Eight-phase Model According to Kotter 435 10.6.2 Balanced Scorecard 436 References 437 Index 450


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9783895783043
  • Publisher: Publicis MCD Verlag,Germany
  • Publisher Imprint: Publicis MCD Verlag,Germany
  • Height: 249 mm
  • No of Pages: 400
  • Series Title: English
  • Sub Title: Shaping the Future of Your Enterprise
  • Width: 170 mm
  • ISBN-10: 3895783048
  • Publisher Date: 04 Jun 2008
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 36 mm
  • Weight: 1270 gr


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