Scenario-planning in strategic decision-making: requirements, benefits and inhibitors Available to Purchase

Danielle Meyerowitz is based at Gordon Institute of Business Science, University of Pretoria, Johannesburg, South Africa. Danielle Meyerowitz is a Learning Designer at the Gordon Institute of Business Science, University of Pretoria, and has worked in the Executive Education sector for the past six years. Having designed, developed and delivered a range of leadership programs, she has gained exposure to a variety of different businesses and their respective strategies. Prior to her work in executive education, she was involved in the professional services industry as a management consultant. Her areas of interest include strategic foresight and leadership, specifically the need for leaders to become more adaptive in today’s complex environment. She intends to continue to grow her understanding of future-orientated strategy and complexity in the next few years.

Charlene Lew is based at Gordon Institute of Business Science, University of Pretoria, Johannesburg, South Africa. Charlene Lew is a Senior Lecturer in decision theory from behavioral economics and organizational behavior perspectives at the Gordon Institute of Business Science, University of Pretoria. She supervises doctoral and MBA students in the area of decision-making, which spans a range of topics from ethics and decision bias to heuristics. She is a regular reviewer of journal articles, publishes journal articles and case studies in the area of decision-making and has won an award at an accredited international business conference. Prior to her academic career, she was a designer of learning interventions and dean of a business college in the early 2000s. She is progressively focusing her area of interest on the thinking skills that underpin effective decision-making.

Göran Svensson is a Professor at Hoyskolen Campus Kristiania, Oslo, Norway. Göran Svensson is a Professor at the Institute of Marketing at Kristiana University College, as well as Professor at Halmstad University in Sweden. Svensson is an active and dedicated member of numerous editorial boards and editorial review boards of international research journals. Furthermore, he is a committed member of numerous international research and scholarly networks and associations. He is a frequent author of international journal articles (220+) and international conference contributions (260+). He is also engaged as a book author. Occasionally, he gives speeches in business and writes columns for business magazines and newspapers. During the 1980s, he was an industrialist and entrepreneur in South America (Bogotá, Colombia).