"Scenario planning is discipline for rediscovering the original entrepreneurial power of creative foresight in contexts of accelerated change, greater complexity and genuine uncertainty."
Pierre Wack, Harvard Business Review article: Scenarios: The Art of Re-Perceiving

Scenario Planning
The goal of scenario planning in the context of the development of an overall strategic plan is to serve as a tool to raise the collective knowledge and consensus of management by providing a vehicle for enlightenment, communications, and trust. This vehicle, the scenario, plays upon the fundamental characteristic of the human psyche to construct stories based upon experiences, external events, and aspirations. By sharing the diversity of these experiences and aspirations in a common setting of uncertain events, the scenario provides a commonality that instills confidence and transforms the group into a team.

Scenario planning, when used in the context of an overarching strategic plan for the organization can identify robust strategies that are applicable in a number of disparate future worlds. The willingness and courage to face such uncertainty requires a revolutionary transformation in most organizations. The mental image of success that exists for the organization has to be challenged, and the leaders must be willing to change dynamically with the environment, not in response to it.

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For more information on how ITP might help your organization look into the future and develop confidence in the management team and the organization to prepare for uncertain events, contact ITP Principal Partner, Jack Jekowski