Topic: Scenario Planning
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Lessons in Systems Thinking: A Tale from the Land of Middle Health
Microtown, a small community deep within the Land of Middle Health, isn’t much different from other towns. Its citizens are young and old, rich…
Creating Business Results Through Team Learning
As of 1993, Sigma Tech (a fictional name) was one of the most successful small corporations in the U.S. The company’s business was both…
R&D Funding: Managing the Pipeline
For 50 years, the U.S. government, universities, and corporate labs have led the world in research breakthroughs and Nobel prizes. Recently, however, global and…
Apple’s Dilemma
One of the most delicate balancing acts a company must perform is to introduce a new product without cannibalizing or adversely affecting its existing…
Building Communities of Commitment
Creating learning organizations takes more than a collection of individuals working toward the same cause; it requires building a community of learners who are…
Too Many Boats on the Horizon
Today, fully one-third of the 200 fisheries worldwide monitored by the U.N.’s Food & Agriculture Organization (FAO) are depleted or being overfished…. This view…
Detroit’s Juggling Act: Balancing Production and Quality
Truck sales are on a roll…. US sales of light trucks stormed ahead 24% in January, to 416,828 vehicles, easily outpacing a 7.8% rise…
The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook: A Guide to the Learning Organization
Jorge Valchez is an organizational development consultant at International Chocolate, Inc., a (fictional) confectionery company. A few years ago, he picked up a copy…
Car Leasing: Are Automakers Gambling Away Their Future?
Ford and some other companies that have pushed (car) leasing hard ‘are making money hand over fist right now,’ says Randall McCathren, whose company,…
Organizations as Learning Systems
The recent decline of well-established firms and the perceived need for corporate renewal has fueled a growing interest in the topic of organizational learning.