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HBR Guide to Managing Strategic Initiatives
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HBR Guide to Managing Strategic Initiatives

by Harvard Business Review
February 2020
Intermediate to advanced
256 pages
4h 3m
English
Harvard Business Review Press
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CHAPTER 9

New Project? Don’t Analyze—Act

by Leonard A. Schlesinger, Charles F. Kiefer, and Paul B. Brown

We all know how new projects happen in a predictable world: A team is assembled, a market analyzed, a forecast created, and a business plan written. Resources are then gathered, and the plan is set in motion.

But how do you launch new projects in an unpredictable environment? What’s the best way to do it in an age when the proliferation of data and opinion makes truly decisive analysis impossible; when faraway events have immediate, unexpected impact; and when economic malaise has made companies reluctant to take big bets on unproven ideas?

Take a page from the playbook of those who are experts in navigating extreme uncertainty while minimizing ...

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ISBN: 9781633698192