Papers by Frances O'Brien
Scenario planning is a tool which captures multiple futures that an organisation may face. The sc... more Scenario planning is a tool which captures multiple futures that an organisation may face. The scenario planning process is often participative and conducted in a facilitated workshop setting, requiring people to be physically present in order to participate. A variety of social media exist which allow people to interact with each other virtually, and in real time. This paper explores the potential for social media, and in particular Twitter, to be used to facilitate and encourage engagement with workshops, beyond those physically attending the workshop. We describe and reflect on the use of social media within a project to develop scenarios for the future of the food system within Birmingham for 2050. The paper considers the broader implications of these reflections for the scenario process.
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Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 2017
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INFORMS Transactions on Education, 2011
This paper describes the development of three courses that have run for more than 30 years at War... more This paper describes the development of three courses that have run for more than 30 years at Warwick Business School in the United Kingdom. The courses focus on supporting the strategy process, which consists of activities such as: setting direction and goals; creating, rehearsing, and evaluating strategic initiatives; exploring the external environment; and measuring and learning from organisational performance. We present the structure of the three courses (for undergraduate, Specialist Masters, and Executive MBA students) taught during the 2009–2010 academic year, highlighting the frameworks, methods and models, or tools, covered on the different courses. A key contribution of this paper is that it demonstrates how tools drawn from the operational research/management science field, but also other fields, including strategic management, can be brought together to support the strategy process. The tools are typically but not exclusively qualitative, or soft, and participative in n...
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Systemic Practice and Action Research, 2006
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