Planning Review: Volume 23 Issue 5
Table of contents
Leading Strategic Change: Innovation. Value. Growth
Bernard C. ReimannThis year's Planning Forum conference had a most timely theme: “Leading Strategic Change.” The focus on leadership and change provided a unifying thrust to the many ways…
Leading Strategic Change: Something old, something new
William R. HowellChange seldom happens the way we expect, and plans are rarely executed exactly as we intend. That's the thing about change: it always retains that element of the unexpected. So…
Keeping the lead in an ever‐changing global landscape
Lester M. AlberthalAbout five years ago, we at EDS began to rethink our corporate direction. We looked at our competencies and considered how to best apply them to leverage market opportunities. We…
Leading strategic change in America's Army: The way forward
General Gordon R. SullivanProfessor, consultant, and best‐selling author Richard T. Pascale has closely observed General Sullivan's efforts to do the impossible: to transform the largest and most…
Catching the ninth wave: Information, technology, and strategic change
Ira T. SiegelSailors long ago believed that one day a wave would come along that was far greater than any that had preceded it. They called it the ninth wave—the most powerful result of the…
Surviving in a turbulent environment
Lester C. ThurowAn anonymous Chinese quotation aptly describes the state of mind of many of us today. About 1,000 years ago, it was said, “When a big fish is pulled from the water, it flops about…
Peter Schwartz offers two scenarios for the future
B. Joseph PineIn his keynote presentation “An Age of Instability?” Peter Schwartz, president of the Global Business Network and world‐renowned scenario planner, began by asking the audience how…
Getting the most out of scenarios: Advice from the experts
Audrey SchrieferThis conference session was an in‐depth discussion of how practitioners can get the most value from scenario planning. Participants were Bill Ralston, SRI International; Robert…
Building change from grassroots: The use of the Web
Sally HelgesenOver the last couple of decades, there's been an enormous emphasis on leadership: studying leadership, dissecting leadership, learning from leaders. We've learned a lot from this…
Creating the boundaryless organization: The radical reconstruction of organization capabilities
Steven Kerr, David UlrichSteven Kerr, Vice President of Leadership Development at General Electric and David Ulrich, Professor of Business Administration at the University of Michigan's School of…