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Scenario-Driven Planning: Learning to Manage Strategic Uncertainty » (1st Edition)

Authors: William Acar
ISBN-13: 9780899308258, ISBN-10: 0899308252
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Greenwood Publishing Group, Incorporated
Date Published: February 1995
Edition: 1st Edition

NICHOLAS C. GEORGANTZAS is Associate Professor of Management Systems at Fordham University and a management systems consultant.

WILLIAM ACAR is Associate Professor of Management Systems and Administrative Sciences at the Graduate School of Management of Kent University.

Offers a new management technology for strategy design under conditions of uncertainty.

	Illustrations
	Preface
	Introduction
Pt. I	Why Scenario-Driven Planning?	1
1	Productivity and Strategy	3
2	Environmental Triggers and Scenarios	21
Pt. II	The Role of the Environment	43
3	Environmental Turbulence and Uncertainty	45
4	Assumption Analysis for Strategic Turnaround	61
Pt. III	Introductory Applications	77
5	Infoplus (A)	79
6	Combank (A)	103
Pt. IV	Competitive Advantage Through Scenarios	121
7	Competitive Intelligence Systems for the 1990s	123
8	Features of the Proposed Planning Process	137
Pt. V	Standard Applications	155
9	Computing Scenarios	157
10	System Dynamics	185
Pt. VI	Reperceiving in the Multiverse of Rationality	215
11	Strategy Designs of the 1990s	217
12	Planning Technology for the 1990s	237
	App. A: Theoretical Foundations of Scenario-Driven Planning	259
	App. B: The Art of Organizational Learning	277
	App. C: Intelligence-Amplifying Tools	291
	Bibliography	337
	Index	363