Scenario Planning: The Link Between Future and Strategy (Hardcover)

by Mats Lindgren (Author), Hans Bandhold (Author) "Speed and variety are also two major themes in the literature focusing on successful behaviour in turbulent business environments..." (more)
Key Phrases: raplex environments, strategic response capability, business intelligence function, The Future of Crime, Albert Einstein, Hudson Institute (more...)

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Product Details Hardcover: 240 pages Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan (February 22, 2003) Language: English ISBN-10: 0333993179 ISBN-13: 978-0333993170 Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.2 x 0.8 inches Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies) Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews) Amazon.com Sales Rank: #749,580 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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raplex environments, strategic response capability, business intelligence function, scenario planning process, scenario thinking, scenario cross, everyday crime, consequence tree, focal question, crime scenarios, scenario process, actor analysis, scenario techniques, turbulent business environments, strategic flexibility

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This book cites 39 books:

• Strategic Management by Robert E. Hoskisson in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
• Strategic Management: Text and Cases with Online Learning Center access card by Gregory G Dess in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
• Discovering the future: The business of paradigms by Joel Arthur Barker in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
• Meaning of the Twentieth Century by Kenneth Boulding on page 115, and Back Matter
• Strategic Management by Arthur A. Thompson on page 35, and Back Matter

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• Predictable Surprises: The Disasters You Should Have Seen Coming, and How to Prevent Them (Leadership for the Common Good) by Max H. Bazerman in Back Matter
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• A-Z of Management Concepts and Models by Bengt Karlof on page 326

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 240 pages
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan (February 22, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0333993179
• ISBN-13: 978-0333993170
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.2 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #749,580 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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39 of 39 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Practical tools for future strategy, May 18, 2003

By	Per Espen Stoknes (N0276 Oslo, Norway) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This is an eminently practical book on scenario and strategy development. The language is simple, straight-forward with many examples, tools and anecdotes. In a verbal style, with lots of figures and bullet point lists, the five chapters in a way resembles lectures.
As faculty and lecturer at the Norwegian School of Management I find this book a perfect supplement in the curriculum to the two classics: P. Schwartz' "Art of the long view" and van Heijden "Scenarios". This book occupies a kind of middle-position between Schwartz' very popular and narrative account and van Heijden's more rational-academic discourse, which some practitioners find a hard read. Not like this one. There's not much deep philosophy either, as in J. Ogilvys recent "Creating Better Futures". The chapter on scenario planning in practice (#3) contains loads of simple, informative examples, written much shorter and to the point, than G. Ringland's three books on scenarios with much-detailed cases, repetitions and a weak structure.
In short - this book is a toolbox with instructions manual. As the Swedish authors Lindgren and Bandhold themselves say in the book; "Get yourself a toolbox". If you, as a manager or consultant want to learn, update or expand your portfolio of future oriented strategy tools, this one is The Choice.

11 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Nuts and bolts of scenario planning, August 6, 2003

By	Jonas Edenvik (Stockholm Sweden) - See all my reviews

I saw an review in Harvard Business School and I fully agree with them: "...serious but yet it's the friendliest introduction to the nuts and bolts of scenario planning that you are likely to find..." I really recommend this book to everyone who wants to explore, understand and have an impact on the future.