Scenario Planning

Strategic Foresight processes, Futures Exploration, Uncertainty Mapping & Futures Design

Systematic Futures Process

By using structured trend analysis, we ensure a broad view of potential future scenarios and how they lead to action.

Collaborative Workshops

We facilitate interactive sessions with your team to identify key trends and uncertainties, to foster a shared understanding.

Dynamic
Strategizing

We build and refine adaptable strategic plans based on identified scenarios through strategy development.

Creating scenario-based strategies based on making sense of uncertainty and change

Challenge

Balancing immediate priorities with long-term vision, overcoming resistance to change, and managing constraints in time, budget, and expertise can be a challenge for most organizations.

These challenges can make it hard for your organization to stay ahead and handle future uncertainties effectively. That's where scenario planning comes in, offering a strategic approach to prepare for various possible futures.

Approach

The process is for strategic leaders, decision-makers, and teams responsible for strategy, innovation or risk management efforts, guiding their organizations through uncertain futures.

Scenario planning offers a strategic approach to prepare for different possible futures, going beyond classic forecasts and providing more than just a gut feeling. Immerse in collaborative sessions to explore and craft futures-driven strategy.

Outcomes

Futures Ready Team
Your team gains a shared understanding of possible futures, enhancing their ability to collaborate and make informed decisions.

Resilient organization
Your organization takes a big first step to become more adaptable and resilient, equipped to handle uncertainty and change with confidence.

Outside-In perspective
Your team will adopt a horizon-based perspective, better understanding change dynamics and able to shape the futures more effectively.

Cases

  • Man with mask on during the COVID-19 pandemic

    Going Viral: Scenarios for a Post Pandemic World

    Pictet Asset Management refined its investment approach for a post-pandemic world through a scenario planning process, developing four plausible future scenarios via virtual collaboration that included in-depth research and strategic thinking.

    This process strengthened Pictet's strategic decision-making capabilities, providing a solid foundation for navigating the next decade as a prominent European asset manager.

    Additionally, the production of a whitepaper showcasing these findings highlighted Pictet's thought leadership, enhancing engagement with both existing and potential clients.

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  • Strategizing for the Futures of Energy

    To navigate the uncertainty futures of the energy sector, a leading tech company in the oil & gas industry set a future-driven strategic direction for its new leadership team through a three-day off-site.

    The workshop, supported by a Futures Brief pre-read and tailored homework exercises, led to the development of strategically relevant scenarios for the future of the energy sector.

    These scenarios provide clear implications for addressing key themes and uncertainties and a robust, futures-driven strategic roadmap was created to ensure key initiatives were aligned with the company’s long-term objectives.

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  • Building a Resilient Bizkaia for the Futures

    To proactively prepare for future opportunities and challenges post-COVID-19, the BBK (Basque Foundation) launched a remote exploration of future scenarios for the Bizkaia region.

    The initiative aimed to enhance resilience and promote economic and social prosperity in Bizkaia by 2025 with the involvement of a broad group of stakeholders across society.

    It yielded several key outcomes from the identification of four scenarios complete with "must-win battles" and initiatives to the generation of thought-leading insights and recommendations to help Bizkaia prepare for the futures.

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  • Canada Health 2030: Pathways to Personalised Healthcare

    The Canada Health 2030 initiative was launched to explore potential future scenarios for personalized healthcare in Canada by 2030.

    Through extensive research and four virtual workshops with diverse stakeholders, the project developed four unique scenarios, a strategic roadmap, and patient journeys to illustrate personalized healthcare impacts.

    These outcomes provide actionable insights and guidance to support the future development of personalized healthcare in Canada.

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