Navigating Strategic Decisions: The Power of Sound Analysis and Forecasting

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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Navigating Strategic Decisions: The Power of Sound Analysis and Forecasting

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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Navigating Strategic Decisions: The Power of Sound Analysis and Forecasting

Navigating Strategic Decisions: The Power of Sound Analysis and Forecasting

by John E. Triantis
Navigating Strategic Decisions: The Power of Sound Analysis and Forecasting

Navigating Strategic Decisions: The Power of Sound Analysis and Forecasting

by John E. Triantis

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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.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781032919928
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 10/14/2024
Pages: 436
Product dimensions: 7.00(w) x 10.00(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Preamble. Introduction. Current Strategic Forecasting Paradigm and its Failures. The Promise of Strategic Decision Forecasting. A New Paradigm for Strategic Decision Forecasting. Business Definition of Strategic Decision Forecasting. Mindset, Processes, and Principles. SDF Analytical Techniques and Tools. SDF Assessment and Implementation Techniques. Strategic Decision Forecasting Applications. Corporate Policy and Strategy Development. New Product Development and Launching. New Market or New Business Area Entry. M&A and New Joint Venture Projects. Product, Service, and Technology Licensing. Reorganizations, Restructures, and Turnarounds. Risk and Uncertainty Management. Major Capital Expenditures and Project Financing. Product Portfolio Management. Negotiations Support and Investor Relations Guidance. Future State Realization Planning. Business Case, Business Plan, and Target Support. Implementing Strategic Decision Forecasting. Best in Class Organizations and Forecaster Skills and Qualifications. Strategic Decision Forecasting Implementation Challenges. Summary and Conclusions.

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Managers too often predict demand emotionally despite the importance of the decisions being made as a result of good fact-based analysis. Subsequently, forecasts are often extrapolations of historical volume trends, rather than well-thought-out projections. This has been the accepted process for strategic forecasting and planning for the past 30 years. This is the first book that provides a proven framework for business executives to translate fact-based decisions into viable strategic forecasts.
—Charles Chase, Principal Industry Consultant, Supply Chain Global Practice, SAS Institute Inc.

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