Scenario planning with integrated quantification - managing uncertainty in corporate strategy building

Foresight

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 363-374

  Hirsch, Sven ^a   Burggraf, Paul ^a   Daheim, Cornelia ^a  

^a Z punkt The Foresight Company   (Germany)

Author keywords

Decision making; Forecasting; Scenario planning; Strategy; Systems theory; Uncertainty management

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885083352     PISSN: 14636689     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/FS-09-2012-0064     Document Type: Article

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