OR Practice—A Scenario Approach to Capacity Planning

A Scenario-based Approach to Strategic Planning

For 20 years, conflict between the planning and process schools of strategy has shaped the debate on strategy creation. Here we argue that a scenario-based approach to strategic planning can serve as an innovative management tool in the field with the potential to overcome discrepancies between the two opposing schools of strategy. The scenario-based approach to strategic planning builds on the...

A Scenario-based Approach to Strategic Planning

3 INTRODUCTION In this paper we describe the fourth-stage of our six-step scenario-based approach to strategic planning, the scenario building. Having completed the trend and uncertainty analysis using the 'Impact/Uncertainty Grid' tool in stage three, we will present in this paper how plausible scenarios can be created based on the identified key uncertainties using the 'Scenario Matrix' tool ...

Introduction to Scenario Planning

Land Combat Scenario Planning: A Multiobjective Approach

The simulation of land combat operations is a complex task. The space of possibilities is exponential and the performance criteria are usually in conflict; thus finding a sweet spot in this complex search space is a hard task. This paper focuses on the effect of population size and mutation rate on the performance of NSGA–II, as the evolutionary multiobjective optimization technique, to decide ...

A scenario-based stochastic programming approach for technology and capacity planning

In response to market pressures resulting in increased competition, product proliferation and greater customization, rms in many industries have adopted modern technologies to provide operational exibility on several dimensions. In this paper, we consider the role of product mix exibility, de ned as the ability to produce a variety of products, in an environment characterized by multiple produc...