Creating Futures: Scenario Planning as a Strategic Management Tool
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| Rating | : | 4.57 (790 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 271784189X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 280 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-10-23 |
| Language | : | English |
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In this handbook for professionals, managers, planners, and entrepreneurs will discover an arsenal of effective futures-thinking techniques--from workshops to scenario-building software--that enhance the collective process. This powerful statement flies in the face of traditional notions of prediction and forecasting, but is central to the approach presented in this book. The future is open to us, to be written or created collectively. Creating Futures provides powerful tools for business and political leaders facing uncertainty.. The author maintains that, with the right tools and attitudes, people can learn how to create futures. Readers will find effective ways to anticipate change, while avoiding cliched solutions and conventional thinking
Godet is a member of prime minister's Council of Economic Advisers and the French Academy of Technology. Coates is a popular lecturer, writer, and consultant on topics related to the future.. Michel Godet holds the chair of "strategic prospective" at the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers in Paris. Joseph F
Godet is a member of prime minister's Council of Economic Advisers and the French Academy of Technology. Joseph F. Coates is a popular lecturer, writer, and consultant on topics related to the future.. About the AuthorMichel Godet holds the chair of "strategic prospective" at the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers in Paris
Reader said Rich in techniques, hard to pick out the ideas. I was inspired by this book to focus on the future more in general, and in particular to deliberately imagine the future as a spectrum of possible scenarios, which I could watch emerge and either became more likely or fall away as possibilities.The book was very dense reading, really an MBA text, and had some good case studies and methodology description.Lot's of comment about the author's reputation and consulting gigs.I was surprised to learn that the French had made so many very, highly, sig. Heavy--for professionals and academicians only Professor Michel Godet is a Frenchman with 1Heavy--for professionals and academicians only Roger E. Herman Professor Michel Godet is a Frenchman with 14 books and over 200 papers under his belt. A specialist in strategic planning, he emphasizes the careful use of tools such as scenario planning.The book is a valuable contribution to the literature of serious-really serious-strategic planners. It will be most appreciated by those who have a very strong scientific bent and are comfortable working with models. Godet's approach is considerably more rigorous than futures-thinking approaches applied in th. books and over 200 papers under his belt. A specialist in strategic planning, he emphasizes the careful use of tools such as scenario planning.The book is a valuable contribution to the literature of serious-really serious-strategic planners. It will be most appreciated by those who have a very strong scientific bent and are comfortable working with models. Godet's approach is considerably more rigorous than futures-thinking approaches applied in th. "There is Nothing here!" according to Tim H. According to this book:In the 70's the french invented everything, and the rest is history.This "work" purports to be an "analytic approach" to the problem of scenario building. Instead it is a mish mosh of chapters and unordered subsections which have no obvious relation to each other. Moreover, if the book had containd any real (useful) information, it is lost between the lack of: ability to write, the editor's sacred reponsilibty to do his job, and the translation which I found bordering on