Purpose – To encourage top management to recognize the need for adding new value to their organizations and commit to the creation of new internal capabilities for growth via the exploration of their company's strategic frontier. Design/methodology/approach – Explains how the CEO can select...

Purpose – This disguised case aims to describe a scenario planning project to improve decision making for a manufacturer operating in Brazil's confusing, unpredictable politico‐economic environment. “BrasilAuto's” management team faced a range of complex choices related to capacity,...

In this issue we look at innovative scenario methodologies for managing discontinuityin the near term. Five feature articles describe various ways of using decision-drivenscenarios to gain foresight concerning the next few months and years. ''Scenarios for planning post 9/11: managing the impact...