AboutScenarioPlanning
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About Scenario Planning
Some pages with concepts
Scenario Thinking – range of articles by the Global Business Network. Includes links to the useful booklets available as pdf files:
- Plotting Your Scenarios: An Introduction to the Art and Process of Scenario Planning, by Jay Ogilvy and Peter Schwartz, and
- The Effective Use of Scenario Analysis to Support R&D by Gerald Harris and Peter Schwartz.
From scenario thinking to strategic action, by Ian Wilson of Wolf Enterprises. The basics of scenario planning (as compared to traditional planning) in a business environment.
How to build scenarios by Lawrence Wilkinson. An example of driving forces and development of scenarios as they shape the technological world. Colourful site, in more ways than one.
Scenario planning – your key to the future, by the Graduate School of Business, Curtin University, Australia. Short, readable introduction to scenario planning (pdf document).
Visioning in planning: is the practice based on sound theory? by Robert Shipley. Downloadable paper from Environment and Planning, Vol 34, January 2002.
Some more complete guides
Anticipating change: Scenarios: As a tool for adaptive forest management - a guide, by Eva Wollenberg et al. CIFOR 2000. Excellent, readable report on techniques and implementation issues in natural resource management. Includes a good discussion of different variations on the concept of scenarios. (warning: pdf doc – 2.5 MB).
Visions actions and requests across administrative levels; A methodological proposal for strategic planning in territorial development. A report on methodology and visioning tools by Natalie Beaulieu, CIAT and Montpellier 2002 (pdf).
