Planning Review: Volume 20 Issue 2
Table of contents
Mental models
Peter M. SengeThe discipline of managing mental models—surfacing, testing, and improving our internal pictures of how the world works—promises to be a major breakthrough for building learning…
Scenario‐based strategic planning: A process for building top management consensus
Mason Tenaglia, Patrick NoonanBy incorporating senior management's scenarios—alternative stories about the competition, markets, capital investments, new technologies—into the planning process, executives can…
Battelle's scenario analysis of a European high‐tech market
Stephen M. MilletIn 1988 Battelle was asked to work with a U.S.‐based information technology (IT) company to apply the BASICS scenario method to a forecast of its changing European market.
1992–97 world political risk forecast
William D. Coplin, Michael K. O'LearyGeorge Bush's catchy but empty phrase—“new world order”—is likely to become uncomfortably ironic in 1992 as the forces of disorder create both risks and opportunities for…
Acting versus thinking: A debate between Tom Peters and Michael Porter
Bernard C. Reimann, Vasudevan RamanujamIncreasingly, managers are harried by rapidly accelerating technological changes, globalization, and new competitors. How can they cope with the mercurial environments their firms…