Scenarios
- Are powerful means of engaging your team to consider future possibilities.
- Are not forranmores but powerful stories which describe futures which might exist in your sector, professional discipline or market place.
- Are useful means of assessing how responsive your current strategy is to potential changes in the external environment.
Scenario Planning Workshops
- Will help you and your colleagues to share your views on what the future might look like.
- Will facilitate conversations which can help identify potential unidentified risks.
- Enable you to 'flight test' your current strategy and adapt it in order to be responsive to potential future situations.
This means
- You will have a more extensive and detailed understanding of potential new opportunities.
- You can identify the key skills and capabilities you need in the future.
- You are better prepared to take advantage of opportunities which arise.
Applications
Strategic Planning - to 'kick start' the process of developing a new strategic plan.
Risk Management - to consider and identify those external factors which could have the most significant potential impact on the organisation.
Creative Thinking - to encourage and extend your current thinking by thinking outside the confines of the constraints of today and think about future possibilities.