Using Scenarios: Scenario Planning for Improving Organizations
This is the first book to offer detailed guidance on how scenarios can be used to help organizations make their toughest decisions in a world of ever-escalating crisis and opportunity.

To reap the full benefits of scenarios, you have to be able to apply them in the real world. This groundbreaking book goes beyond the theoretical to clearly explain different ways scenarios can be used in business decision-making—from strategic planning and financial modeling to crisis response. Connecting scenarios to strategy and action can have many benefits, including the ability to react quickly, anticipate major changes in the environment, and identify major opportunities.

Thomas Chermack, a top expert on scenario planning, offers seven specific ways organizations can use scenarios and provides a wide variety of examples, along with proven processes, exercises, and workshops that have been used successfully in organizations across industries and countries for more than fifteen years.
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Using Scenarios: Scenario Planning for Improving Organizations
This is the first book to offer detailed guidance on how scenarios can be used to help organizations make their toughest decisions in a world of ever-escalating crisis and opportunity.

To reap the full benefits of scenarios, you have to be able to apply them in the real world. This groundbreaking book goes beyond the theoretical to clearly explain different ways scenarios can be used in business decision-making—from strategic planning and financial modeling to crisis response. Connecting scenarios to strategy and action can have many benefits, including the ability to react quickly, anticipate major changes in the environment, and identify major opportunities.

Thomas Chermack, a top expert on scenario planning, offers seven specific ways organizations can use scenarios and provides a wide variety of examples, along with proven processes, exercises, and workshops that have been used successfully in organizations across industries and countries for more than fifteen years.
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Using Scenarios: Scenario Planning for Improving Organizations

Using Scenarios: Scenario Planning for Improving Organizations

by Thomas J. Chermack
Using Scenarios: Scenario Planning for Improving Organizations

Using Scenarios: Scenario Planning for Improving Organizations

by Thomas J. Chermack

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Overview

This is the first book to offer detailed guidance on how scenarios can be used to help organizations make their toughest decisions in a world of ever-escalating crisis and opportunity.

To reap the full benefits of scenarios, you have to be able to apply them in the real world. This groundbreaking book goes beyond the theoretical to clearly explain different ways scenarios can be used in business decision-making—from strategic planning and financial modeling to crisis response. Connecting scenarios to strategy and action can have many benefits, including the ability to react quickly, anticipate major changes in the environment, and identify major opportunities.

Thomas Chermack, a top expert on scenario planning, offers seven specific ways organizations can use scenarios and provides a wide variety of examples, along with proven processes, exercises, and workshops that have been used successfully in organizations across industries and countries for more than fifteen years.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781523092888
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Publication date: 02/01/2022
Pages: 240
Sales rank: 1,009,071
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.06(h) x 0.45(d)

About the Author

Thomas J. Chermack is professor of organizational learning, performance and change at Colorado State University, where he also directs the Scenario Planning Institute. He is the founder and president of Chermack Scenarios, a scenario-planning consultancy firm. He is the author of foundational books in the field, including Scenario Planning in Organizations and Foundations of Scenario Planning: The Story of Pierre Wack. Dr. Chermack has focused on how organizational leaders use scenarios to manage uncertainty, and he is often quoted in academic research and consults widely on topics related to scenarios. He is also a frequent speaker at planning and futures conferences around the world.

Table of Contents

List of Figures ix

Preface xiii

Part 1 Exploring the Use of Scenarios

1 What Do You Do with Scenarios? 3

2 Problems with the Practice of Strategic Planning and Scenario Planning 7

3 Methods for Building Scenarios 31

Part 2 Specific Ways to Use Scenarios

4 Seven Approaches to Using Scenarios 69

5 Connecting Scenarios to Their Original Purposes 76

6 Generating Strategies 86

7 Windtunneling Strategies with Scenarios 103

8 Testing Decisions and Options with Scenarios 114

9 Assessing the Financial Benefits of Scenarios 133

10 Modeling Financials with Scenarios 146

11 Developing Scenario Signals and Critical Uncertainty Dashboards 159

Part 3 Improving Organizations with Scenarios

12 Making Scenarios a Part of Organizational Culture 175

13 Advancing Scenario and Strategic Planning 184

Conclusion 189

Afterword 191

Appendix 197

References 207

Acknowledgments 216

Index 218

About the Author 222

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