Scenario Planning

Value Proposition

We help you to improve your strategic foresight and planning. We systematically explore plausible futures, assess critical uncertainties including technological shifts (eg AI), possible pathways, and develop robust strategies. 

Our approach enables you to make informed decisions in complex, evolving environments, improving your organisation's resilience and adaptability.

Key Challenges

  • Difficulty in anticipating future trends and disruptions that could impact your business. 

  • Siloed thinking that hinders exploration of alternative scenarios.

  • Overcoming organisational blind spots and challenging assumptions

  • Balancing multiple plausible futures in strategic decision-making

  • Ensuring flexibility and adaptability in business strategies

  • Engaging and aligning stakeholders in forward-thinking and proactive planning

  • Translating scenarios into actionable strategies and plans

  • Continuously adapting to emerging trends and disruptive forces

Our Approach

This collaborative process enables clients to navigate uncertainty more effectively, make better-informed decisions, and develop resilient strategies that can succeed in various potential futures. We engage key stakeholders throughout the scenario development process to ensure alignment and buy-in.

  1. Leverage AI tools to help identify key drivers, emerging trends, disruptive technologies and uncertainties in the client's business environment

  2. Engage leaders and experts to bring diverse perspectives to create a variety of imaginative and plausible future scenarios

  3. We help you assess the potential impact of each scenario on your business, considering various factors like market dynamics, customer behaviour, and operational efficiency. 

  4. Develop adaptable strategies, including risk management, that perform well across multiple scenarios

  5. Design early warning systems to monitor scenario indicators

  6. Establish a proactive strategy review cycle to ensure ongoing relevance and adaptability

Benefits and Outcomes

  • Enhanced strategic agility and decision-making capabilities

  • Improved risk management and opportunity identification

  • Better prepared for disruptive events and market shifts

  • Enhanced resource allocation and investment decisions

  • Developed culture of forward-thinking and innovation

  • Ability to continue with your own scenario planning, post project

Why Us

  • Talent: Our postgraduates are on the cutting edge of research and our experienced professionals understand what makes for robust options - combination provide practical strategic foresight

  • Track record: Proven track record in sustainable development and long term planning

  • Client centric: We tailor our scenario planning to your specific goals and challenges, ensuring relevance and actionable insights.

  • Innovative thinking: We challenge conventional thinking and explore a wide range of possible futures to identify opportunities and risks.

  • Access: to world-leading research at the University of Oxford and extensive industry experience.

  • Commitment: to long-term partnership and on-going support helping with your strategic planning and adaptation to future challenges.

In addition, we have a strong focus on future trends and disruptive forces.

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