
Navigating Strategic Decisions
The Power of Sound Analysis and Forecasting
- 436 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
Based on four decades of experience and research, Navigating Strategic Decisions: The Power of Sound Analysis and Forecasting explains how to improve the decision-making process in your organization through the use of better long-term forecasts and decision support. Filled with time-tested methodologies and models, it provides you with the tools to establish the organization, processes, methods, and techniques required for analyzing and forecasting strategic decisions.Describing how to foster the conditions required for forecasts to materialize, this book will help you rank project valuations and select higher value creation projects. It also teaches you how to:
- Assess the commercial feasibility of large projects
- Apply sanity checks to forecasts and assess their resource implications
- Benchmark best-in-class strategic forecasting organizations, processes, and practices
- Identify project risks and manage project uncertainty
- Analyze forecasting models and scenarios to determine controllable levers
- Pinpoint factors needed to ensure that forecasted future states materialize as expected
This book provides you with the benefit of the author's decades of hands-on experience. In this book, John Triantis shares valuable insights on strategic planning, new product development, portfolio management, and business development groups. Describing how to provide world-class support to your corporate, market, and other planning functions, the book provides you with the tools to consistently make improved decisions that are based on hard data, balanced evaluations, well considered scenarios, and sound forecasts.
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Table of contents
- Front Cover
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Author
- Chapter 1 - Introduction
- Chapter 2 - Strategic Decision Forecasting
- Chapter 3 - The Promise of Strategic Decision Forecasting
- Chapter 4 - SDF Organization Business Definition
- Chapter 5 - Culture, Mindset, Processes, and Principles
- Chapter 6 - SDF Analytical Techniques and Tools
- Chapter 7 - SDF Assessment and Implementation Techniques
- Chapter 8 - Corporate Policy and Strategy Evaluation
- Chapter 9 - New Product Development
- Chapter 10 - New Market or Business Entry
- Chapter 11 - M&A and Joint Venture Projects
- Chapter 12 - Product and Technology Licensing
- Chapter 13 - Corporate Reorganizations and Turnarounds
- Chapter 14 - Uncertainty and Risk Management
- Chapter 15 - Major Capex and Project Financing
- Chapter 16 - Product Portfolio Management
- Chapter 17 - Negotiations and Investor Relations Support
- Chapter 18 - Future-State Realization Planning
- Chapter 19 - Business Cases, Plans, and Operational Targets
- Chapter 20 - Best-in-Class Strategic Forecasting Teams
- Chapter 21 - SDF Organization Implementation Challenges
- Chapter 22 - Summary and Conclusions
- Bibliography
- Back Cover