"Executives engaged in strategic planning typically have a blind spot.
They focus almost exclusively on possible courses of action and pay little attention to the future socioeconomic and environmental context in which those actions will play out. During our combined 70 years of research, practice, and teaching, we, as well as others, have observed that business leaders are inclined, and their organizations configured, to work with only a single implicit view of the future.' That view is typically deeply embedded within their strategies as a set of unquestioned assumptions about the future context. We call these sets of unexamined assumptions ghost scenarios because they are invisible - and because they may come back to haunt executives and companies in unanticipated and unwelcome ways. Underpinning every ghost scenario is a small set of implicit trends that leaders project into the future without questioning whether they might change.
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Where the Ghosts Hide in Common Strategic Planning Processes
In a SWOT analysis, leaders consider their organization's strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats in relation to only the current scenario and to known competitors, suppliers, customers, regulatory rules, and the like. When identifying and analyzing risks, executives implicitly assume that there is only one scenario. However, in another context (a different scenario), risks might evaporate and new opportunities might arise.
In stakeholder mapping, leaders make an assessment about the attention and power of stakeholders now and in one expected future. An implicit scenario is the background to this assessment. But the importance of stakeholders could change significantly if the context unexpectedly changes.
In game theory and war-gaming, competitors' moves are considered within the context of a ghost scenario, and war games are typically conducted with no consideration of a different future other than the one that is underway. However, changing scenarios could require new tactics and surface unforeseen future combatants."
Trechos retirados de "How Ghost Scenarios Haunt Strategy Execution" de Trudi Lang e Rafael Ramírez
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