Scenario Planning
Strategy built on one forecast breaks the day the forecast does. Scenario planning builds for a spread. Together we map the forces reshaping your market, stretch them into three or four plausible futures and walk your strategy through each one to see where it bends and where it snaps. The point is not to guess right. The point is to be ready either way. Leadership teams leave calmer, sharper and carrying a strategy that has already survived tomorrow a few times.
How the day runs+
Four futures before lunch, a strategy that survives them by the end.
- 09.00 · Driving forces. What is really reshaping your market
- 10.30 · The two-by-two. Four futures take shape
- 12.30 · Lunch
- 13.30 · Living the scenarios. Narratives and implications
- 15.00 · The stress-test. Where strategy bends, where it snaps
- 16.30 · Signals to watch and no-regret moves
When this makes sense+
- During strategy development or annual planning
- Before major investment or transformation decisions
- When your market is moving faster than your planning cycle
- When the leadership team disagrees about where the world is going. Especially then.
What you will walk away with+
Futures you can plan against.
- Three or four vivid scenarios with narratives and driving forces
- Your current strategy stress-tested against each one
- Early warning signals that tell you which future is arriving
- No-regret moves that make sense in every scenario
The tools you will master+
Driving forces canvas, the two-by-two scenario matrix, implication mapping and the signals dashboard. Built live, kept forever.
Who should be in the room+
- Leadership and management teams who own long-term strategy
- Strategy and insights teams who feed the planning cycle
- Board members who want to pressure-test the plan
Investment+
Half day, €495 per person. One day, €895 per person. Two days, €1,595 per person. Optional extras include a trend report and leadership coaching. Excluding VAT and travel.
Designed, like everything we do, to make itself unnecessary.
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