Making better strategic bets with analytics-enabled scenario modelling

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Confronting Uncertainty Intelligently

Using the power of analytics to drive four key strategic choices in volatile times

In turbulent times even stronger strategic positioning is needed. Analytics, with its prescriptive abilities to drive more accurate, actionable and scalable business interventions, is a key capability. In the coming weeks, we will launch a blog series in which we will discuss how business leaders can and should prioritize analytics across a set of four strategic choices.

The COVID-19 crisis came out of a clear blue sky and caused a storm of unprecedented fury. Rough waters call for calm heads and reliable charts; accurate data is key for strategic decision making. The best led organizations will be those that assure their current position and seize opportunities to reform themselves in volatile times. Scarce resources, uncertainty, and risk mean that companies can ill-afford imprecise strategic interventions and that there is a hefty premium on good intelligence. Now more than ever, data and analytics must be front and center to effective company strategy. (Always) layering analytics on strong strategic logic, companies can fully enrich and speed up the evaluation of their business and its environment, and ultimately prescribe strategic choices and interventions that are more accurate, actionable and scalable.

Companies should recalibrate their position and
prioritize analytics across a set of four integrated strategic choices:

In each of the four blogs we will tackle how companies can recalibrate their strategic positioning in these strategic choices.

Blog 1: Making better strategic bets with analytics-enabled scenario modelling

The first article of the ‘Confronting Uncertainty Intelligently’ series explores how to strike with well thought out, analytics-enabled scenario modelling at the (unexpected) moments that matter.

Blog 1: Making better strategic bets with analytics-enabled scenario modelling

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Blog 2: Using analytics to fuel strengthened focus in volatile times

The second article of the ‘Confronting Uncertainty Intelligently' series explores how to use the power of analytics to apply strategic precision and efficiently deploy scarce resources.

Blog 2: Using analytics to fuel strengthened focus in volatile times

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Blog 3: Maximizing Customer Equity value by strengthening customer relationships in volatile times

The third article of the Confronting Uncertainty Intelligently series explores how to determine your Customer Equity and how to use analytics to build stronger, and more profitable customer relationships in volatile times.

Blog 3: Maximizing Customer Equity value by strengthening customer relationships in volatile times

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Blog 4: Using surgical precision to drive effective strategic cost transformation

In turbulent times even stronger strategic positioning is needed. Analytics, with its prescriptive abilities to drive more accurate, actionable and scalable business interventions, is a key capability. The fourth and final article of the Confronting Uncertainty Intelligently series explores how to use analytics-enabled cost transformation to balance operational continuity with enhanced strategic positioning.

Blog 4: Using surgical precision to drive effective strategic cost transformation

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More information?

For more information about the ‘Confronting Uncertainty Intelligently’ series
and/or Strategy Analytics, please do not hesitate to contact Stefan, Perry or
Nils via the contact details below.

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